Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Glenreagh (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenreagh (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaín (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17620, -9.18575
- SMR number
- CO021-060----
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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
On top of low ridge in rolling pasture. Circle comprised five stones, one of which had fallen; internal diameter 3.5m. Neither entrance stones nor axial stone could be identified with certainty. Stones measured 0.8m to 1.3m L, 0.5m to 0.8m T and 0.5m to 0.9m H. Prostrate slab, possibly fallen standing stone, lay 2m S of circle. Monument was destroyed in 1970s and stones thrown into abandoned quarry in SW corner of field. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 30, no. 49)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.