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Stone row

Tooreenglanahee, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone row, Tooreenglanahee, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tooreenglanahee
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Galláin (1937)
Coordinates
52.16656, -9.20928
SMR number
CO021-051001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on crest of low ridge on E side of valley of River Blackwater. Only SW stone of three remains. Aligned ENE-WSW, it is 1.2m L, 0.6m T and 2m H. Ó Drisceoil (1934, 23) records measurements of second stone as 0.8m L, 0.55m T and 1.1m H, and of third stone as 0.9m L, 0.65m T and 1m H. Bowman (1934, 645) recorded 14ft 9in between first and second stones, 5ft 7in between second and third; he was informed locally that the two smaller stones were covered by bog until mid-19th century. According to local information (1984), removed c. 1940; old memory that five stones stood on site. Ring-barrow (11877) c. 30m to SSW. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 231, no. 3)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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