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
- Galláin (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.96990, -9.01149
- SMR number
- CO059-023006-
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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 reclaimed moorland plateau, at SW end of Boggeragh Mountains overlooking Foherish River valley to W. Stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.85m apart; overall length is 3.05m. NE stone is 1m L, 0.7m T and 1.15m H. SW stone is 0.65m L, 0.4m T and 0.9m H. Stones stand 2m NE of cairn (CO059-02307-) and two other cairns (CO059-02304-; CO059-02305-) stand some 30m to SE; five-stone circle (6471) and pair of standing stones (6560) 120m to SW and radial-stone cairn (6491) 150m to SSW.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 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.