Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Coolcarron (condons And Clongibbon By.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcarron (condons And Clongibbon By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carntierna (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.11498, -8.28289
- SMR number
- CO035-049002-
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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 forestry, within hilltop enclosure (11978) on summit of Corrin hill. Oval cairn (c. 22m N-S; c. 42m E-W; H 2.7m) disturbed on E side by disused army observation bunker (built 1940s); trigonometrical station on N side. Cist (11943) found in mound in 1832 after 'the removal of several hundred tons of stone' from cairn (Borlase 1897, 13). According to Ó Murchú (1978, 10) cairn, in 1886, was '19 feet high... including a pillar of stones on the top'.
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
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.