Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knocknagoun, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagoun
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1940)
- Coordinates
- 52.00300, -8.83590
- SMR number
- CO049-015----
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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
Depicted on 1940 OS 6-inch map as circular area defined by field fence NNE->SSE and by hachured arc SSE->N; named 'Stone Circle'. 'Low bank enclosing an area approximately 30m in diameter. Nature uncertain' (O Nualláin 1984a, 47). Not located due to forestry.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.