Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cupmarked stone
Kilmoon (sherkin Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoon (sherkin Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.47160, -9.41455
- SMR number
- CO149-017----
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 pasture on NE-facing slope overlooking Kinish Harbour. Recumbent stone (L 2.03m; Wth 1.05m) with fourteen cup-marks (max. diam. 0.08m) on its flat upper surface. Small stone (H 0.4m; 0.3m x 0.34m) embedded in ground abuts SE edge. According to local information, associated stones were removed in recent past.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.