Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Cloghboola Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghboola Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01568, -9.01220
- SMR number
- CO048-080002-
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
On platform, on NW-facing slope of Mushera Mountains at head of Owenbaun River valley. Circle complete; entrance stones parallel, set end-on to circumference. Orthostats are 0.85m to 1.5m L, 0.1m to 0.3m T and, apart from stump of W side stone (H 0.15m), 1m to 1.5m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 3m. Complex also includes radial-stone enclosure (6492), standing stone (6647) and number of prostrate slabs (CO048-080001-) to S.(O Nualláin 1984a, 31, no. 53)
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Radial-stone enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.