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Boulder-burial

Bohonagh, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Boulder-burial, Bohonagh, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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