Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone row
Barrahaurin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrahaurin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.99751, -8.79397
- SMR number
- CO050-057001-
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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 flat pasture, on SE slopes of Uctough Hill. Monument demolished between 1935 and 1972. Comprised row of five stones, three of which were prostrate in 1916; aligned E-W. Row was c. 14m in overall length. E stone was 1.7m L, 0.5m T and 1.7m H. Next stone lay 1.1m to W; it measured 1.25m by 0.9m by 0.2m T. Third stone, 1.15m to W, was 1.6m L, 0.6m T and 4.1m H. Fourth stone lay 1.15m to W; it measured 2.6m by 0.9m by 0.4m. Fifth stone lay 1.5m to W; it measured 4.55m by 1.5m and 0.3m T. (O Nualláin 1988, 232, no. 13)
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.