Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Coorleigh South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coorleigh South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59292, -8.93326
- SMR number
- CO135-077----
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 pasture on gentle SW-facing slope. Large, subrectangular flat-topped stone (L 2.08m; max. Wth 1.42m; H 0.57m) atop slight rise. Rectangular area on upper surface (L 1.1m; Wth 0.89m) defined by grooves (Wth 0.07m; D 0.03m) on two sides encloses 11 possible cupmarks (max. diam. c. 0.05m; D 0.01m). Traditionally known as "mass-rock".
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
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.