Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Kilmeedy West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmeedy West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04403, -9.09971
- SMR number
- CO039-242----
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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
Situated on a bog-covered saddle of the NE fringe of the Derrynasaggart Mountains rising to Claragh Mountain to the NE and overlooking the Blackwater valley to the NW. The stone circle is incomplete: two upright stones stand 1.27m apart. The W stone (1.15m x 0.28m; H 0.7m) is a probable axial stone and the E stone (0.67m x 0.47m; H 0.7m) is a possible entrance stone. The measurement along the presumed axis, atypically aligned NNW-SSE, is 1.6m. The relationship of the circle to two slabs lying prostrate to S (1.95m) and SW (1.4m) is unclear, possibly they are displaced orthostats.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.