Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Knockroe East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.61368, -10.01535
- SMR number
- CO127-042----
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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 pasture, on a S-facing slope overlooking the mouth of Bantry Bay. A stone slab (H 1.1m; 2.35m x 0.2m) is aligned NE-SW and leans to the SE. The top of the stone slopes down to the NE, except at the SW end, which appears to have been broken off. A smaller slab lies prostrate beside the SW end and further smaller broken stones are partially covered by grass along the SE side of the slab. The slab has the appearance of a sidestone of a wedge tomb, however, there is not enough surface evidence to confirm this. A standing stone (CO127-018----) is situated 80m to the WSW and there are two children's burial grounds nearby, one (CO127-044----) c. 50m to the NNE and the other (CO127-043----) 170m to the SW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.