Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Cloghfune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghfune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.61353, -10.08205
- SMR number
- CO127-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rough hill pasture, in an E-W hollow NW of the summit of Knocknahulla. Two upright stones, atypically aligned NNW-SSE for this monument class, measure 4.8m in overall length. The NNW stone (0.65m x 0.22m; H 1.2m) leans slightly to the S and is 3.2m from the SSE stone (0.85m x 0.12m; H 0.96m).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.