Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Glantane East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantane East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00454, -9.04501
- SMR number
- CO048-093----
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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 tract of partially reclaimed moorland, on E side of Keel River valley. Circle incomplete; may have consisted of eleven or perhaps thirteen stones. Six erect stones survive; five form arc to E. Orthostats are 0.8m to 1.05m L, 0.15m to 0.35m T and 0.5m to 1m H. Internal diameter of circle is c.4.5m. Pit at centre is modern. Circle is surrounded by fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 2m-2.5m), measuring 10m diameter from outer rim to outer rim. Slight traces of external bank. Pillar-like stone set on edge along outer face of fosse and second pillar-like stone lies 8m to SE of circle. Wedge tomb (6406) stands 100m to S, pair of standing stones (6551) c. 250m to NE and radial-stone enclosure (6493) c. 350m to NE.
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 171/1941).
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.