Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Slab-lined burial
Courtmacsherry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtmacsherry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63549, -8.69761
- SMR number
- CO136-114----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1966. Remains consisted of a slab-lined grave (L 1.8m; Wth 0.48m; H 0.36m) covered by lintels containing an extended inhumation of an adult male. There were no accompanying artefacts. A radiocarbon date for the burial ranges from 545-664 AD calibrated (NMI files).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 January 2010
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 15-18.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.