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Cairn - radial-stone cairn

Shandrum Beg, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - radial-stone cairn, Shandrum Beg, 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
Shandrum Beg
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.72201, -9.40433
SMR number
CO105-058----

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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)
  • 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

On a gentle E-facing slope, at the foot of a ridge that rises sharply to the SE. A roughly circular peat-covered cairn (diam. c. 6m; max. H 0.5m) with a slight central hollow. Three radially set stones, two in the E sector (0.4m x 0.07m; 0.3m x 0.2m) and one at W (0.7m x 0.1m), protrude though the cairn. A further two slabs, one (0.57m x 0.3m; T 0.15m) partially embedded and the other (0.8m x 0.5m; T 0.15m) lying on the surface, are located in the E sector of the cairn and, in addition, two small loose stones lie on top of the cairn.

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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