Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing 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
- 51.61848, -9.89800
- SMR number
- CO128-043002-
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 grazing, on bog on a break on the S-facing slopes of Bere Island with a view across the mouth of Bantry Bay as far as Mizen Head. This standing stone (0.55m x 0.2m; H 1.3m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NNW-SSE. The stone leans to the E and its upper half narrows towards the top. A hut site (CO128-043001-) is situated 1m to the N.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.