Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Rooves More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooves More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88189, -8.79017
- SMR number
- CO072-069----
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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. Upright stone (H 1.09m; 1.9m x 0.35m), roughly rectangular in shape; long axis NNW-SSE. Leaning against NNE face is second stone (L 1.1m; Wth 0.65m). Hartnett (1939, 123) recorded second stone lying on ground near upright stone. According to Conlon (1917, 160), the 'two galláns' were 'touching one another'.
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.