Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockoura, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockoura
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63894, -9.97828
- SMR number
- CO114-049001-
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
In rough uneven pasture with occasional outcropping rocks, on a S-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Gour River and Pulleen Harbour. This standing stone (0.4m x 0.28m; H 0.85m), which stands on a prominent rise, is rectangular in plan and section and is orientated NE-SW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.