Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Dunmanway North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmanway North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hexagon Rock (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.72238, -9.11260
- SMR number
- CO107-035001-
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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 Dunmanway town. Marked on O.S. 1st and 2nd ed. (1842, 1903) as Priest's Rock: derivation of name not known locally. According to landowner, rock part of Hexagon Rock as shown on 3rd ed. (1935).
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
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.