Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Caherdowney, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherdowney
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00652, -9.06913
- SMR number
- CO048-185----
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
In pasture, on a slight SE-facing slope. This possible boulder-burial is located in a field boundary where a lot of field clearance material, including large stones, has been dumped. A large cover-stone (1.95m E-W; 1.9m N-S; T 1.55m) rests on two support-stones at NNE and NNW and a third earthfast stone, possibly outcropping rock, to the S. Two upright stones (0.5m x 0.2m; H 0.45m and 0.6m x 0.3m; H 0.5m, respectively), apparently deliberately set, are located immediately ENE and NW of the cover-stone. There is a rath (8116, vol. 3) 80m to the ENE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.