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Stone row
Knockawaddra (carbery East (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockawaddra (carbery East (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns (1900)
- Coordinates
- 51.66210, -9.05530
- SMR number
- CO121-036----
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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 level patch of ground on S-facing slope overlooking the Clashagloragh river. Row of three stones, aligned NE-SW, 7m in overall length. NE stone is 1.6m L, 0.6m T and 2.9m H. Next stone, 1.4m to SW, is 1.2m L, 0.75m T and 1.55m H. SW stone, 2.3m from last, is 0.65m L, 0.6m T and 1.1m H. There is a pair of standing stones (CO121-037---) 200m to ESE. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 237, no. 50).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.