Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Currakeal (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currakeal (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.76628, -9.54167
- SMR number
- CO090-007002-
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 rough hill pasture just NE of a saddle separating the townlands of Currakeal and Canrooska with views to Barraboy Mountain and nearby valleys. A flat-topped rectangular cover-stone (1.5m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE; H 0.9m) resting on four support-stones augmented by a pad-stone on the N stone. A stone row (146, vol. 1) stands 49m to SW and another stone row (140, vol. 1), a five-stone circle (65, vol. 1) and a cairn (839, vol. 1) are located 95-100m to the NW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.