Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Shehy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shehy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.77721, -9.23862
- SMR number
- CO093-024----
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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 ridge c. 350m NW of summit (1284 ft.) of Shehy Beg mountain. One stone lies prostrate, partly concealed by peat. It measure at least 4.6m by 0.95m and is 0.5m T. Second stone, 3.6m to SW, is 0.95m L, 0.35m T and 2.2m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 246, no. 115)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.