Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Carriganimmy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carriganimmy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.99213, -9.03013
- SMR number
- CO048-097001-
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 level patch of moorland on W slopes of Musherabeg mountain overlooking Foherish River valley. Circle complete. Orthostats are 0.6m to 1.3m L, 0.3m to 0.4m T and 0.6m to 0.9m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 2.9m. Standing stone (6630) 5.75m to SE. (O Nualláin 1984a, 32, no. 55)
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.