Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Leitrim More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69838, -9.67978
- SMR number
- CO103-012----
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
On break in SSW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay. Low earthen mound (5.2m N-S; 4.6m E-W) surrounded by five stones. On W side of mound, three upright stones lean heavily; tallest stone (H 2.1m; 1.5m x 0.4m) to N. Two prostrate stones on E side of mound. Two standing stones 3.6m to W of mound; long axes NE-SW (H 1.05m; 0.9m x 0.8m: H 0.8m; 0.5m x 0.42m). (O'Brien 1970, 13).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.