Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Claragh Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallán (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.05688, -9.10981
- SMR number
- CO038-065----
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
Removed. Disused quarry now occupies site. According to Broker (1937, 30) there were two stones in this townland; one '5 or 6 feet high'; another '200 yds off in next field....It has been destroyed'. Exact location of second stone (CO038-090----) not known.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.