Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Boulder-burial
Bohonagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohonagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.58046, -8.99929
- SMR number
- CO143-032003-
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 patch on S-facing slope, 1.5m N of Rosscarbery Bay. Cover-stone (2.9m x 2.4m; T 1.1m) rests on three low boulders, two of which are of quartz; seven cup-marks on upper surface. Excavated in 1957 (Fahy 1961, 93-104) together with multiple-stone circle (CO143-032001-) c. 18m to W and hut site (CO143-032004-). Stone overlying socket at W edge of cover-stone was considered to have been uprooted from it; interpreted as fixed closing-slab which blocked formal entrance. Fragments of cremated bone recovered from shallow pit beneath cover-stone . (O Nualláin 1978, 95, no. 33)
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.