Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Glenlohane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenlohane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17619, -8.85739
- SMR number
- CO023-219----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge of high ground. This is the original location, as indicated by the landowner, of a standing stone which was moved to a rough quarry area to the SW. The stone (2.2m x 1.5m; H 1.6m) is irregular in plan and section. According to the landowner, a water diviner working in the area in the recent past encountered a 'rectangular chamber' beneath where the stone had originally stood. This stone is most probably that recorded in the 1930s in 'Mr. Bolster's' in Glenlohane townland and described as '3 ft. [0.91m] high by 10 ft [3.05m], by 7 ft. [2.13m]' (Bowman 2000, 28). The dimensions of the stone are atypical for this monument type and its precise nature remains to be elucidated.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.