Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Shanlaragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanlaragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.78183, -9.07699
- SMR number
- CO094-045----
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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 top of low ridge in rolling pasture. Stones, aligned NNE-SSW, stand 0.9m apart; overall length 2.7m. NE stone is 1m L, 0.4m T and 2.15m H. SW stone is 0.95m L, 0.5m T and 2.2m H. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 246, no. 116)
See Excavations 1990, 19.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.