Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Canalough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canalough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59623, -10.03489
- SMR number
- CO127-052----
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 pasture on a W-facing slope beside the seashore overlooking Blackball Harbour to the W. An irregularly shaped stone slab (1.9m NW-SE; 1.8m N-S; T 0.17m) is raised (H 0.8m) at N where it rests on an E-W stone (H 0.4m; 0.95m x 0.2m) and slopes down to the S. At SE the slab appears to rest on the ground and it is obscured. A rounded stone supports the slab at the S-SW end keeping it c. 0.08m above ground level.
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
- Breakwaterunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.