Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Currane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70087, -8.95801
- SMR number
- CO109-039001-
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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 a Currane Hill. Mahr (1937, 362) records an urn 'found in the centre of three concentric stone circles, rising in height from the inner to the outer' each being covered with 'long flags extending round the uprights of each respective circle'. Covered by cairn (CO109-039002-); site destroyed in 1840. Doody (1986) describes the urn as an 'Enlarged Food Vessel'.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.