Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Oughtihery, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtihery
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.98998, -8.88570
- SMR number
- CO049-031----
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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. Depicted as single standing stone on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps and named 'Dallaun' and 'Gallaun', respectively; as pair of standing stones on 1940 OS 6-inch map. Stones removed; no visible surface trace. Hartnett (1939, 79) recorded two stones; 'NW stone is 40ins high by 30ins by 9ins...other stone is 20 yards SE of this and is 38ins by 13ins by 15ins'.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.