Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Lispatrick Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lispatrick Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63415, -8.56283
- SMR number
- CO137-012----
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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
Burial partially washed away by storm, exposed January 1990, on edge of cliff at Lispatrick Point. Three skeletons, one on top of another, lying 0.3-0.4m below ground level. (pers. comm. Rose Cleary)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.