Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Tracashel, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tracashel
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71536, -9.57584
- SMR number
- CO104-029----
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
In rough gorse-covered pasture, on a terrace on a S-facing rocky hillside overlooking Coolieragh Harbour. This standing stone (0.65m x 0.4m; H 1m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated E-W. Packing-stones are visible on its N side.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bridge2 mi
- Penitential station2 mi
- Ringfort - cashel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.