Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carrigacat And Milleen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigacat And Milleen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.52037, -9.75090
- SMR number
- CO147-077----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a heather-covered hilltop with occasional outcropping rock and with a view W-E over Dunmanus Bay. A roughly circular partially collapsed cairn (1m N-S; 1m E-W; H 0.6m), which consists of mainly slab-type stones, is surrounded by heather and features traces of a kerb along the SE arc.
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
- Mining complexunder 1 mi
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.