Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ardgroom Outward, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgroom Outward
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.73164, -9.87814
- SMR number
- CO102-004003-
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
At foot of Tooreennamna mountain overlooking Ardgroom Harbour to N. Low circular cairn (H 0.6m; 7.6m E-W; 8.5m N-S) of boulders with scatter of crushed quartz towards centre; W edge defined by 2 concentric arcs of low stones. Pair of standing stones (CO102-00402-) 9m to W; cairn (CO102-00401-) 70m to NNW. (O'Brien 1970, 21).
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.