Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Derreenacarrin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenacarrin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69836, -9.60494
- SMR number
- CO104-028----
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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 pasture, on the N side of a roadside field boundary on a NE-facing slope overlooking Derreenacarrin Lough to the N. According to local information, rounds were formerly made at a large boulder (3m N-S; 1.7m E-W; H 1.4m). Coins were placed on the boulder, which is now covered with moss and a dense growth of briars.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field boundary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.