Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Moneen (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17580, -8.38040
- SMR number
- CO027-068----
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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
In flat pasture, some 600m WSW of multiple-cist cairn (CO027-069---). Sub-megalithic cist comprising open chamber (1.2m L; Wth 0.65m; H 0.55m), aligned E-W, represented by single N and S sidestones with inset backstone at E. Chamber covered by single roofstone. Tradition of monument being used as a mass rock. (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 128)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.