Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Cappaboy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappaboy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.78807, -9.31331
- SMR number
- CO092-006----
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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
On bog-covered slope which forms W side of valley on Owvane river. Stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.4m apart; overall length is 3.75m. NE stone is 0.85m L, 0.1m T, 0.55m H. Top appears to be broken. SW stone leans to S. It is 1.6m L, 0.25m T and 1.8m H. Four-poster monument (CO092-00804-) stands c. 10m down slope to E; some 200m further on is radial stone enclosure (CO092-00901-). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 245, no. 11).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.