Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Caherkeen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkeen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.65669, -10.02258
- SMR number
- CO114-070----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough hill pasture on bog, on a N-facing slope overlooking Coulagh Bay. According to local information, this natural earth-fast boulder (2.6m NW-SE; 2.2m NE-SW; H 0.8m), which is roughly rectangular in plan, was used as a mass-rock. The SE half of the boulder slopes gently downwards to the relatively flat surface of the NW half.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.