Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Killountain, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killountain
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.74167, -8.80000
- SMR number
- CO110-005----
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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 flat tillage c.100m S of Bandon river. Discovered 1980 during land reclaimation; only upper 0.5m of stone then visible. Stone subsequently removed from ground (H 1.9m; 0.9m x 0.5m); adjacent pit burial(CO110-006---) on S side (Shee-Twohig and Doody 1989, 5255). Stone re-erected in 1983, c. 300m to NE on river bank.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.