Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Dromourneen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromourneen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.64351, -9.38367
- SMR number
- CO119-129----
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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
Beside a stream, in the back garden of a house. A standing stone respected by the line of a field boundary in an area of rough grazing and heath land. The long axis is oriented ENE-WSW. The ground is built up around it but what is above the ground measures 1raz.ing 2m in height. The stone is .7m wide at the top and .85m wide at the bottom. It is .3m deep at the top and .37m at the bottom. and the fence was built up against it. The stone was identified by the landowners Jonathan Harvey and Diana Morrison.
Compiled by: Finola Finlay
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Attached image is courtesy of Finola Finlay
Nearby in the register
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.