Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Carrigagulla, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigagulla
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1940)
- Coordinates
- 52.00363, -8.91457
- SMR number
- CO049-007----
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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 gentle sloping bogland, on W side of Laney River valley. Circle of irregular outline; one entrance stone angled inwards from circumference. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.2m L, 0.4m to 0.5m T and 0.5m to 1.2m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned ENE-WSW, is c. 2.5m. Multiple-stone circle (CO049-008----) 400m to SSW. (O Nualláin 1984a, 32, no. 56)
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 circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.