Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Curramore, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curramore
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79390, -9.41891
- SMR number
- CO091-026----
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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
Within a coniferous forest, 20m S of its N perimeter, in the floor of an E-facing boggy valley surrounded by mountains on the W side of Borlin Valley. The remains comprise two upright stones. The E stone is a neat slab with a rectangular profile (H 0.95m; 1.5m x 0.15m) and is aligned ESE-WNW. The W stone (H 0.47m; 0.7m x 0.3m) stands 1.15m to the NW and is aligned NW-SE. The stones are not set with their long axes in line. The scant remains might suggest the arrangement of an axial stone (E stone) and adjoining flanking stone of a stone circle. However, further evidence would be required before ascertaining the exact nature of this monument. The surface of a slab is exposed 1.5m NE of the E stone; its outline could not be determined and its relationship to the stone group is unclear. A fulacht fia (CO091-027----) lies c. 120m to the E.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.