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Cairn - unclassified

Kealagowlane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Kealagowlane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kealagowlane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.71280, -9.62704
SMR number
CO104-027003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

In rough pasture, on a bog-covered terrace, on the S-facing rocky slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain. The Beara Way walking route is c. 100m to the S. The remains of a circular cairn (6.5m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.8m) are partially sod-covered and feature intermittent traces of a kerb N-SW. Disturbance of the cairn material has resulted in depressions on the surface at the S and E as well as a spread of stones extending outwards at the NW. Two burnt mounds (CO104-027004-; CO104-027005-) and a fulacht fia (CO104-027006-) are c. 50m to the W, c. 60m to the W and c. 90m to the WSW, respectively. There is a multiple-stone circle (CO104-027001-) and a boulder burial (CO104-027002-) c. 50m to the S.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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