Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Croagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.50642, -9.57385
- SMR number
- CO148-039----
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
In an area of partially gorse-covered rough grazing, on a SW-facing slope with views across Long Island Sound. This standing stone (0.6m x 0.26m; H 1.1m), which leans slightly to the W, is rectangular in plan and is orientated NNE-SSW. Field clearance rubble has been placed in the general area around the base of the stone.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.