Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Kilbeg (carbery East (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg (carbery East (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.57635, -9.09910
- SMR number
- CO143-002003-
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 level terrace on N slope of low hill in rolling pasture. Fourteen radially-set stones protrude between 0.1m and 0.4m above the surface of a subcircular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H 0.5m). Cup-marked stone (CO143-097---) atop cairn. Cairn (CO143-002001-) with standing stone (CO143-00202-) at N edge, 10m to NW. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 6)
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
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.