Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Derreenacarrin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenacarrin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.69606, -9.61598
- SMR number
- CO104-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Faint chevron-like design inscribed on a flat slab surface on the east side of a hilltop cairn (C0104-014----) which situated on a ridge overlooking Bantry Bay. The slab face into the interior. Just above it on the same surface is another smaller faint inscription resembling a 'sideways' arrow shape.
Compiled by: David Myler and Matt Kelleher
Date of upload/revision: 31 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.