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
- 51.66259, -9.94227
- SMR number
- CO115-112003-
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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 a mantle of blanket bog, on an E-facing undulating slope. A roughly oval-shaped cairn (5m E-W; 3.5m N-S; max. H 0.75m) comprising a mound of large stones. The base stones in the cairn are partly hidden in the blanket bog. There is another cairn (CO115-112002-) c. 60m to the NW.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.