Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Inches (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inches (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67421, -9.95956
- SMR number
- CO114-075001-
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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 peaty hill pasture, on a terrace on the NE-facing slopes of Miskish Mountain. This standing stone (0.8m x 0.5m; H 1.12m) is rectangular in plan and section and is orientated NE-SW. Packing-stones are visible at the base of the stone, especially on the NW side. The stone has been incorporated into the rounded corner of a field boundary in the NW extremity of a field system (CO114-075004-). There is a hut site (CO114-075002-) is c. 45m to the E.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.