Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Dromgarriff (bantry By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromgarriff (bantry By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74907, -9.51169
- SMR number
- CO105-055003-
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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 top of an E-W gorse and heather-covered rocky ridge, on the W-facing slopes of Cobduff Mountain, overlooking Glengarriff. A semicircular mound of stones (6.5m N-S; H 0.6m) is what remains of an originally a circular cairn. The semicircular mound comprises stones of varying shapes and sizes and displays traces of a kerb along its SE-SW arc. The N half of the original cairn appears to have been removed, leaving traces of the perimeter stones embedded in the shallow bog. A hut site (CO105-055002-) lies c. 200m to the N.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.