Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Island (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06848, -8.57559
- SMR number
- CO042-057----
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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, on gentle slope on N side of Leapford Stream; wedge tomb and possible megalithic tomb (9820, 9824) c. 350m to SW. Both stones are prostrate. East stone knocked c. 1976 and probable socket still visible at NW end; stone measures 3.1m by 0.85m by 0.4m. Second stone lies 1.35m to W; it measures 3.8m by 1.2m by 0.5m. Two boulders and some field stones lie on the site. (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 327-8, photograph; Ó Nualláin 1988, 242, no. 79)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.