Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Dunlough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunlough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.48341, -9.83185
- SMR number
- CO146-012----
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
This cairn is located on the highest point of a NE-SW rocky ridge, to the NE of Three Castle Head with a commanding view in all directions. A roughly cone-shaped cairn (1.8m N-S; 1.75m E-W; H 1.15m) that consists of mainly medium-sized stones. Traces of a kerb protrude from the shallow peat along the SW and NE arcs and may indicate the original cairn. Visitors to the site have rebuilt the upper portion of the cairn in recent times.
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.