Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Knockraheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockraheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Alignment (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.96913, -9.01308
- SMR number
- CO059-023001-
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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
On moorland plateau, at SW end of Boggeragh Mountains overlooking Foherish River valley to W. Two quartzite stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.05m apart; overall length is 3.5m. NE stone is 1.1m L,. 0.45m T and 1.05m H. SW stone is 1.35m L, 1.1m T and 1.25m H. Five-stone circle (6471) stands 22.5m to NE, radial-stone cairn (6491) 70m to SE, and pair of standing stones and cairns (6561; CO059-02307-; CO059-02304-; CO059-02305-) 120m to NE. (O Nualláin 1988, 243, no. 89)
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
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - radial-stone cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.