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
- 52.04072, -9.11030
- SMR number
- CO047-005----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In cut-away bog, on SE-facing slope of saddle to SW of Claragh Mountain overlooking Commeenatrush River valley. Circle incomplete; W entrance and side stone missing. Orthostats are 0.95m to 1.45m L, 0.17m to 0.22m T and 0.55m to 0.70m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 3.4m.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.