Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
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
- Cromlech (Site of) (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.92131, -8.03412
- SMR number
- CO077-009001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, atop hillock. Levelled; Windele (Borlase 1897, 14) gives brief description and sketch of tumulus containing 'a large cist in the centre'. According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, uncovered large stone cist 'eight feet square', containing large quantities of human bones; smaller 'stone chest' in same mound also contained two human skeletons and a third (18 inches square) contained 'slack lime'; cists broken up but bones 'replaced in their old sites'. One of three tumuli in same townland; one in same field (CO077-010---) 150m to ENE, second (CO077-00801-) lies 350m to SW.
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.