Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Fahalea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahalea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79467, -8.37050
- SMR number
- CO099-102----
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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
Pair of stones once stood in field known as "Pairc na Leacach" and were c. 3m H (pers. comm. S. O'Mahony). Perhaps these are the same stones referred to by O'Leary (1918, 123), mistakenly, as being in the adjoining townland of Commeen. Both references to stones locate them, on a hilltop with 'a magnificent view'. O'Leary gives stones measurements as 10ft x 3ft x 3ft and 9ft x 6ft x 3ft.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.