Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballymot, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymot
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85022, -8.36437
- SMR number
- CO087-070----
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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
According to O'Leary (1918, 74), 'In this townland is a pillar-stone over six feet in height and of sandstone'. Hurse (1926, 90) records the stone as four foot six inches high and of limestone. Exact location not known.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.