Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
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
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.17503, -8.37155
- SMR number
- CO027-071----
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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
Discovered in 1930 during tillage operations; investigated by NMI. Large undressed boulder (6ft x 4ft; Th 2in-4ft) overlaid a slight hollow (L c. 6ft; D c. 2ft) into which covering stone had sunk; fragments of human skull dug out from hollow by farmer prior to investigation were only contents surviving.
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
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- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.