Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Lahard, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lahard
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78737, -8.16366
- SMR number
- CO100-017001-
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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
Just N of Doonpower promontory fort (CO100-01702-). Noted during field-walking by Cork Archaeological Survey. "Late Mesolithic site, mostly destroyed due to cultivation. Best concentration of flint on this coastline of the Later Mesolithic" (pers. comm. Prof. P. Woodman, U.C.C.).
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.