Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone (present location)
Ballyheen Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyheen Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.18951, -8.84365
- SMR number
- CO023-335----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not marked on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Removed from original location (CO023-094001-) c. 1977; now lying beside field fence c. 30m to S. Stone (L 1.5m) is quartzite and irregular in shape. According to Bowman (1934, 408), one of two stones (9897) which landed in position after a pitched battle between two giants.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC.
Date of upload: 20 January 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.