Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Rooves More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooves More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (Remains of) (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88128, -8.79087
- SMR number
- CO072-068----
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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 shoulder of gentle slope on S side of Lee River valley. One stone has fallen and rests against erect stone; it measures 5.3m by 1.25m and is 1.2m T. Erect stone leans markedly to S; it is 0.95m L, 0.8m T and, if erect, 3.3m. Large boulder (1.3m by 1m) lies 1.7m N of erect stone. (O Nualláin 1988, 245, no. 107)
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.