Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Ballyvouskill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvouskill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01218, -9.08701
- SMR number
- CO048-056----
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 saddle between two hills at NE end of Derrynasaggart Mountains. Probable axial stone and four prostrate slabs survive. Estimated main axis is aligned WNW-ESE. Circle is surrounded by fosse (D c. 0.3m; Wth 2m-2.5m), c. 12m diameter from outer rim to outer rim. Slight traces of external bank visible along E side.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.