TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Boulder-burial

Caherdowney, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Boulder-burial, Caherdowney, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Boulder-burial in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map