Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Lissard (barretts By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard (barretts By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallán (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.06065, -8.61000
- SMR number
- CO042-076----
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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 rolling pasture, on W side of Peastinagh River valley. Monument destroyed. Probable standing stone pair. Condon (1916, 69, no. 27, UCC) records two stones, aligned ENE-WSW. NE stone was c. 0.6m T and c. 1.9m H. SW stone was c. 0.65m L, c. 0.3m T and c. 0.9m H. (Grove-White 1905-25, vol.1, 328)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.