Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cupmarked stone
Balteen (carbery West (w.d.) By., Kilmore Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balteen (carbery West (w.d.) By., Kilmore Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.49738, -9.77121
- SMR number
- CO147-078----
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
On the W side of a road on a S-facing slope. At least seven cupmarks (max. diam. 0.1m; max. D 0.04m) are visible, mainly on the upper half of the E face of a vertical stone slab (L 1.1m; H 0.9m; T 0.1m) that is built into a roadside field boundary. The slab is obscured by briars.
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
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.