Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Ballyhindon, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhindon
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17880, -8.29175
- SMR number
- CO027-184----
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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 pasture, c. 60m S of River Funshion. Indicated as rock outcrop on 1906 and 1934 OS 6-inch maps. Natural rock outcrop (2m E-W; T 0.5m; H 1.3m); lower outcrop on N side. Known locally as mass rock and field known as 'altar field'.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.