Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Ardagh (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.64006, -9.83947
- SMR number
- CO115-130004-
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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 pasture on a N-facing slope, to the S of a road and overlooking Berehaven Harbour. Two pairs of parallel upright stones, one pair at NE and the second pair c. 15m to the SW, were recorded here in 1992. The northernmost pair of stones (stone at N: H 1.5m; 0.7m x 0.2m; stone at S: H 1.3m; 0.6m x 0.15m) was orientated E-W and the stones stood 1.5m apart. The southernmost pair (H 1m; 0.8m x 0.15m and H 1m; 0.75m x 0.1m) was also orientated E-W and the stones stood 0.6m apart. The present whereabouts of three of the stones is unknown as they were removed by Cork County Council during road widening works. The fourth stone (CO115-130005-), which was originally the N stone of the northernmost pair of stones, is now incorporated in the roadside field boundary c. 20m N of its original location. There is a children's burial ground (CO115-130003-) c. 20m to the NE, in the NE corner of this field.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.