Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Caherkeen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkeen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67033, -10.02427
- SMR number
- CO114-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture with commanding view to S. Prostrate rectangular stone (L 1.6m; 0.9m x 0.58m) known locally to mark head of giant's grave. Smaller stone 12m to SE now removed marked his feet. The upper surface of the stone (1.6m NW-SE; 0.9m NW-SW; H 0.58m) displays three cupmarks (diam. 4-6cm; D 1.5-3cm), one of which has faint traces of a ring, along its NW end. A further eight cupmarks (diam. 5-8cm; D 2-4cm) and one cup-and-ring (diam. 19 cm) are displayed on the SE half of the stone.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.