Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Corran, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corran
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO133-079----
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Corran Hill overlooking Corran lake. Borlase (1897, 44) records a cairn '31 yards in diameter and 20 feet high' destroyed c. 1838. The cairn covered a 'leacht composed of end, foot and side stones which contained an urn burial (CO133-085---). Exact location not known.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009