Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Cloghmacow, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghmacow
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghnamnafinna (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.84384, -8.86547
- SMR number
- CO083-061002-
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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, near top of hill. Rounded boulder (2.2m x 1.75m; c. 1.3m T) resting above six stones. Radial-stone cairn (CO083-061001-) stands 20m to NW; second boulder burial and anomalous stone group (CO083-059001-; CO083-05902-) c. 280m to NW. (O Nualláin 1978, 84, no. 4)
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
- Cairn - radial-stone cairnunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.