Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Curraghavoe, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghavoe
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26470, -8.19596
- SMR number
- CO020-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Group of nine boulders (0.5m - 0.7m max. dimensions) in area 3m x 2m, forming no apparent arrangement. OS records (1930) describe it as seven flat stones forming a circle. May be natural feature. According to Power (1932, 82), '15 feet in diameter. At present the circle consists of seven stones which project about two feet above the surface'. (OS Memoranda A/63/16; O Nualláin 1984a, 46)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.