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Cairn - unclassified

Kilmaclenine, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Kilmaclenine, 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
Kilmaclenine
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Carn (1937)
Coordinates
52.20127, -8.70786
SMR number
CO024-056001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 30m sq.) defined by dotted line and named 'Acuthoge'; hachured on 1905 OS 6-inch map as circular mound (diam. c. 30m) and named 'Acuthoge'; named 'carn' on 1937 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, in gently rolling countryside. Roughly circular grass-covered cairn (c. 34m N-S; c. 30m E-W; max. H c. 1.5m) with wedge tomb (CO024-05602-) in centre; heavily quarried. According to Brash (1843, 272) opened c. 1838 by Rev. Connery, parish priest of Buttevant; subsequently ransacked and large quantities of cairn material removed (resulting H c. 5-6m); composed of 'earth and small rubble' . Mound unusually large for wedge tomb and could be 'secondary feature' where cairn of wedge tomb has been enlarged and re-used for later burials (de Valera and O'Nualláin 1982, 1).

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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