Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Caherkeegane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkeegane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cist (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.94937, -9.04140
- SMR number
- CO059-079----
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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 boggy ground, adjacent to stream. Known as '5 Kings Graves' (UCC). Named 'Cist' on 1940 OS 6-inch map. Five prostrate sandstone slabs, laid in a line (long axis NNW-SSE) with sides abutting resting on low sandstone blocks. Dimensions range from 0.9m x 0.5m to 1.05m x 0.45m, and all are subrectangular in shape. Grass-covered spread of stones surrounds the slabs.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.