Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Dooneens (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooneens (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.98215, -8.89649
- SMR number
- CO060-025001-
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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 platform, on NW-facing slopes of Carrigagour Hill overlooking Laney River valley. Four radially-set stones (H 0.55m to 0.6m) delimit area c. 3m in diameter. Four loose slabs lie nearby. Three-stone row (6517) beside it to NW. (O Nualláin 1984b, 75, no. 12)
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 rowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.