Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Knockraheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockraheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96971, -9.01126
- SMR number
- CO059-023008-
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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 1986 a previously unrecorded series of low stones, set into the ground but not deeply embedded, was recorded immediately to the SE of a cairn (CO059-023007-). This cairn is part of a complex of prehistoric monuments comprising a five-stone circle (CO059-023002-), a radial stone cairn (CO059-023003-), two stone pairs (CO059-023001-, CO059-023006-) and three cairns (CO059-023004-, CO059-023005-, CO059-023007-). The stones were almost all aligned E-W. They were pointed out by a local man who thought them to be a stone circle. The stones did not comprise a stone circle but were considered to possibly mark burials 'of a late date'. The stones could not be located during a subsequent visit in 1994.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.