Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Cúil An Bhuacaigh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cúil An Bhuacaigh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.92361, -9.09525
- SMR number
- CO070-005----
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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 pasture, on lower slopes of S side of E-W ridge. De Valera and O Nualláin (1982, 46, no. 21) recorded four small orthostats set in rectangular pattern. Stones to NE and SE, both measuring 0.3m H by 0.4m Land 0.1m T, stand in line 1.3m apart; third stone (H 0.15m; 0.35m x 0.15m) to SW is parallel to and 1.4m from SE stone; fourth stone (H 0.4m; 0.4m x 0.1m) to NW is 1.4m from last, parallel to and 1.6m from NE stone; interior filled with field stones (ibid.).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.