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Cist
Ballyvorisheen (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvorisheen (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91950, -8.03770
- SMR number
- CO077-008002-
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Shown on 5 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, to N of Castlemartyr to Killeagh road. Low, oval mound (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. H 0.5m); stones partially exposed in SE quadrant, appear to form three sides of square (1.2m x 1.2m). According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, discovered cist (CO077-008002-) with larger cover stone containing two human skeletons. One of three tumuli in same townland; other two (CO077-00901-; CO077-010---) c. 400m to NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.