Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Derrycreeveen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycreeveen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63301, -9.89999
- SMR number
- CO128-026003-
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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, beside farm buildings on Bear Island with views N over Berehaven Harbour and Castletownbere. On the NW face of an upright lichen-covered stone (H 0.45m; Wth 0.2m; T 0.1m) is a weathered Latin cross (H 0.28m; Wth 0.18m ). A levelled rath (CO128-026001-) and children's burial ground (CO128-026002-) lie c. 20m to the NW.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.