Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Garinish (bear By., Kilnamanagh Par.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garinish (bear By., Kilnamanagh Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.60847, -10.12985
- SMR number
- CO126-016----
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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 flat pasture at foot of NW-facing slope in hinterland of Garinish Bay. Wedge-shaped covers stone (1.9m x 1.35m; T 0.7m) resting above three support stones. Destroyed in Spring 1977. Two boulders-burials in Ballynacarriga (CO126-015002-; CO126-014002-) stand 240m and 350m respectively to SW.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.