Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Glantane East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantane East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.99856, -9.04774
- SMR number
- CO048-090----
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 small copse, beside farmstead on east side of Keel River valley. Circle comprises eleven stones, one of which is displaced and lies immediately S of axial stone. Orthostats are 0.55m to 1.3m L, 0.2m to 0.6m T and 0.5m to 0.9m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 5.1m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 12, no. 3)
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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.