Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Drom North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drom North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66294, -9.94293
- SMR number
- CO115-112002-
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 hill grazing, on blanket bog, on an undulating E-facing slope. A roughly circular cairn (3.5m E-W; 3.3m N-S; H 0.4m) which is partly hidden in blanket bog. The cairn contains mainly large stones (max. H 0.4m), many of which are grassed over. There is another cairn (CO115-112003-) c. 60m to the SE.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.