Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone - pair
Knocknakilla, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknakilla
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.00619, -9.02406
- SMR number
- CO048-095001-
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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 level patch of bogland, on NW slopes of Musherabeg Mountain. NE stone is prostrate. It measures 4.35m by 0.9m and is at least 0.3m T; hole at SE end may be socket. Second stone stands 3.3m to SW and leans to N; it is 0.7m L, 0.6m T and 3.7m H. Stones appear to have been aligned NNE-SSW. Five-stone circle (6469) stands c. 3m to NE and radial-stone cairn (6490) c. 13m to ENE. (O Nualláin 1988, 242, no. 82)
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: 12 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Cairn - radial-stone cairnunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.