Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Oldcourt (carbery West (e.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcourt (carbery West (e.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.52766, -9.31500
- SMR number
- CO141-119----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a low hill overlooking estuary of Ilen river to NW. Oblong boulder (2.75m x 1.7m; T 1.5m) rests on two stones. Prostrate slab (L 2.15m; 0.9m x 0.65m) lies 1.5m to S of monument; may be fallen standing stone. (O Nualláin 1978, 95, no. 31; Roberts 1988, Ch. 3, no. 14)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.