Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Killmountain , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killmountain
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graves (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.95247, -9.04111
- SMR number
- CO059-077----
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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
Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. In rough grazing, on steep SSE-facing slope. Rectangular slab-lined hollow (L 0.9m; Wth 0.34m; D 0.35m) closed by flat sandstone slab. Human bone fragments noted inside. Area around burial strewn with loose stones; heap of white quartzite pebbles to E. Two upright slabs (H c. 0.45m; long axes E-W) adjacent to NE.
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.