Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Inchybegga, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchybegga
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66181, -9.38497
- SMR number
- CO119-117----
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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
On a grassy platform, beneath a ridge, on the SW side of Dromore Hill. This is the easternmost of a group of five cairns (see CO119-117001-; CO119-117002-; CO119-117003-; CO119-117004-) that are situated E-W along the platform. This is an oval grass-covered cairn (3m NE-SW; 2.5m NW-SE; H 0.6m) that consists of stones varying in size from 0.10m to 0.30m. One of the other cairns (CO119-117001-) is situated 5m to the W.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.