Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Eyeries, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eyeries
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70726, -9.95775
- SMR number
- CO101-009----
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
In level pasture, on S side of Ballycrovane Harbour. Stones stand 19.4m apart, long axis NNE-SSW. Most easterly stone (H 1.1m; 1.25m x 0.42m) has hole (diam. 3.5m) drilled through it. Angle of drill hole and concave surface of E face suggests part of east side sheared off. Stone to W measures 0.88m x 0.36m and is 0.75m H.
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
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- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.