Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Radial-stone enclosure
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
- 52.01549, -9.01216
- SMR number
- CO048-080003-
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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 slopes of Mushera Mountains, at head of Owenbaun River valley. Seventeen radially-set stones, averaging 0.5m H, enclose an area c. 5.8m in diameter. Scatter of stones in interior extends up to 1m beyond enclosure; stones exposed between radials suggest former presence of dry-stone work. Standing stone (6647) 3.5m to NE. Fallen stone (L 2.1m) lies 1.5m to E and six other prostrate slabs lie to W and SW. Complex also includes five-stone circle (6439) 7m to N. (O Nualláin 1984b, 78, no. 20)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.