Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Cloghboola More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboola More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.03000, -9.05575
- SMR number
- CO048-025001-
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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 gently sloping pasture, on S side of valley of tributary of Finnow River. Circle destroyed c. 1984. Circle was incomplete; stone on W side missing. Orthostats were 0.6m to 1.2m L, 0.3m to 0.5m T and 0.7m to 1.15m H. Measurement along main axis, aligned N-S, was 2.8m. Standing stones (6648) c. 40m to NE, and (6649) c. 70m to SE. (O Nualláin 1984a, 31, no.52)
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.