Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Annagannihy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagannihy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.00351, -8.87206
- SMR number
- CO049-013----
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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 reclaimed rough grazing, on SW-facing slope. Marked 'Stone Circle' on 1904 and 1934 OS 6-inch maps. O Nualláin (1984a, 47) recorded 'six orthostats' (H 0.5m-1.1m; average L 0.6m) which 'delimit an area 7.5m by 4.5m....surrounded by a shallow depression'. 'A seventh stone stands on edge within this setting' (ibid.). Described by Hartnett (1939, 40) as 'the kerb of a cairn' within which was found 'a small square stone box containing ashesand small scraps of bone'. O Nualláin (ibid.) concludes that the nature ofthe site 'is uncertain'. Condon (1916, 157) recorded a second similar feature (CO049-003002-) 20 yards to the S, 33ft in diameter and consisting of 7 stones; this was not located.
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
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