Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knockaroura, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaroura
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (Site of) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.11676, -8.61857
- SMR number
- CO033-065002-
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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
Just NE of NE summit of Knockaroura Hill. OS Name Book records 'The stones composing this carn have all been removed. The site is marked and locally known by a circular bare patch of ground.' No visible surface trace. Site under forest. Radial-stone cairn (9828) 70m to SW. (OS Name Book, Co. Cork, Sheet 33, 1903, 107)
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
- Cairn - radial-stone cairnunder 1 mi
- Kerb circleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.