Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ummeraboy West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ummeraboy West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13371, -9.17766
- SMR number
- CO029-039002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Bowman (1934, 509) recorded two stones c. 3.6m apart standing c. 90m SSE of possible stone row (9846); the first ('6ft 11in by 13ft 4in') was in an 'inclining position'; the second, to N, was broken: remaining portion was '14ft high by 7ft 8in girth'. According to local information, one stone with cupmarks was standing up to c. 1981 when it was removed to field fence to W (CO029-039003-). Stone (L 1.7m; H 0.8m) still lying in field fence.
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 revision: 15 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.