Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Dunmanus East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmanus East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.53228, -9.65796
- SMR number
- CO139-068----
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, on the crest of an E-W rocky ridge with extensive views S to the Fastnet Rock and N to Dunmanus Bay. A roughly circular cairn (1.45m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 0.6m), cone-shaped in elevation, is built on bedrock and contains of a mixture of medium-sized stones. Some of the cairn has been rebuilt or added to in more recent times. According to local information, this cairn has been in existence as long as older people can remember. This information, together with its location and the rounded weather-beaten nature of many of the stones, suggests that this is an ancient cairn.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.