Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Kealkill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kealkill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74522, -9.37064
- SMR number
- CO106-006003-
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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 level bog-covered shoulder on NW-facing slope of W end of Maughanaclea Hills. Complex, which also includes five-stone circle (CO106-00601-) and pair of standing stones (CO106-00602-), excavated in 1938 (O Ríordáin 1939,46-49). Cairn stands c. 2m SE of standing stones and 5m E of circle. Excavation revealed ring of eighteen radially-set stones and sockets (diam. c. 6m), under remains of cairn spread 1m beyond stones. Three large, round closely-set sockets, in trench, aligned NE-SW, were found on NW perimeter of cairn. Lying on surface beneath cairn towards W were two large stones with arc of smaller stones between them. Three fragments of scallop shells found 0.3m below cairn surface. (O Nualláin 1984b, 75, no. 13)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 69/1938).
Nearby in the register
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.