Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cúil Aodha, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cúil Aodha
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.92877, -9.22140
- SMR number
- CO058-023----
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
Marked 'Cromlech' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Not shown on 1903 or 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Removed. Sports field now occupies site. According to de Valera and O Nualláin (1982, 45, no. 13), 'The 1842 Memoranda describe the object as...."a very perfect Cromlech or Druid's Altar". The original nature of the feature is uncertain.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.