Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Clodagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clodagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Standing Stones
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stones (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.69796, -9.22422
- SMR number
- CO107-040----
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
On saddle to the NW of Milane Hill, 50m S of the headwaters of Dirty river. These two stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.5m apart, with an overall length of 3.05m. The NE stone is 0.95m L, 0.7m T and 1.5m H. The SW stone is 0.6m L, 0.6m T and 0.85m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 246, no. 121; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 44)
This is a national Monument in State Ownership (no. 536).
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.
Photographs attached
CO107-040----_01: View of the stones from N.
CO107-040----_02: View of the stones from S.
CO107-040----_03: View of the stones from N.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
References
Ó Nualláin, S. 1988 Stone rows in the south of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88C, 179-256.
Roberts, J. 1988 Exploring West Cork. Skibbereen. Key Books.
Nearby in the register
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.