Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Ballymichael, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymichael
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.84558, -8.86875
- SMR number
- CO083-059001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, just N of crest of ridge overlooking basin of River Lee. Quartzite conglomerate (2.05m x 1.2m; 0.8m T), possibly displaced, resting above four support stones. Anomalous stone group (CO083-059002-) stands 5.5m to S. Radial-stone cairn and boulder-burial (CO083-061001-; CO083-061002-) stand 280m to SE.
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.