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
- 51.49678, -9.77553
- SMR number
- CO147-082----
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 a S-facing slope, beside the entrance drive to a dwelling house. Nine cupmarks (max. diam. 0.07m; D 0.01-0.03m) are visible on the upper surface of a flat-topped roughly rectangular boulder (3.6m NW-SE; 2.9m NE-SW; H 1.1m).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.