Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Downmacpatrick Or Old Head, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Downmacpatrick Or Old Head
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.61152, -8.53361
- SMR number
- CO137A001004-
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
On a coastal promontory, on a fairway on the Old Head of Kinsale Golf Course. According to local information there were once stones here called 'Leaba Diarmuid' which translates as Diarmuid's bed. A number of stones, which appear to be leaning and prostrate, are shown on an aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, 16.03.1981), and may have been part of a megalithic structure. There is no visible trace of this possible structure at ground level.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1978).
Nearby in the register
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.