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Megalithic structure

Knocknagappul (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland

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Townland
Knocknagappul (muskerry West By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.98100, -8.94446
SMR number
CO060-200----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture, in area of outcropping rock, set into a SW-facing slope on a southern extension of the Boggeragh Mountains. This consists of a covering stone resting above one orthostat and some slabs. Two other orthostats stand immediately SW of the cover stone and parallel with that which supports it. The classification of the monument is uncertain pending further investigation but interpretation as some form of burial structure would not be inconsistent with the surviving evidence. A wedge tomb (CO060-007----) lies 115m to the SW. An anomalous stone group (CO060-201----) lies 150m to the NE and another (CO060-008----) lies c. 220m to the ENE.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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