Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Curraghawaddra (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghawaddra (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.96656, -8.87682
- SMR number
- CO060-082----
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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 bog-covered hillside near headwaters of Glashagarriff River. NE stone is prostrate; it measures 4.3m by 1.4m and 0.6m T. Second stone stands 1.8m to SW in townland boundary fence; it is 0.8m L, 0.6m T and 2.4m H. Boulder-burial (CO060-196----) stands 1m to SW. Stones appear to have been aligned ENE-WSW. (O Nualláin 1988, 243, no. 92)
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.