Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Rossmackowen Commons, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossmackowen Commons
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68703, -9.85209
- SMR number
- CO115-071----
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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 mountain pasture, on level patch of ground on E side of Owgarriff river. Low cairn (4m N-S; 4m E-W) of smallish stone (c. 0.5m x c. 0.5m x c. 0.4m).Could be remains of robbed cairn. Local legend says "Hag of Beara" buried in this valley.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.