Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cappaboy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappaboy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79071, -9.31245
- SMR number
- CO092-007----
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
On ESE-facing mountainside. Roughly rectangular stone-built structure (L 12.4m; Wth 2.1m); walls (H 0.8m) have max. thickness of 0.8m. Ope (Wth 0.45m) at NE corner. Altar at E end composed of one flat slab resting on several other stones. In secluded natural hollow (42m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE). Known locally as "Clais an Aifreann". (UCC).
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Four posterunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.