Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Rooska East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooska East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.65040, -9.52782
- SMR number
- CO117-015----
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, rush-covered grazing, in an E-W hollow between rocky ridges to the N and S. This well-set standing stone (H 1.65m; 1.1m x 0.8m) leans slightly to the NW and is trapezoidal in plan. Its long axis is orientated NW-SE. Packing-stones are visible on the ground surface at the base of the standing stone.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.