Stone row

The National Monuments Service's description

In level pasture, on W side of Fiddler's Brook. Row of three stones, aligned approximately NNE-SSW, c. 7.6m in overall length. NE stone alone survives in fence; it is 2.1m L, 0.4m T and 3.2m H; it fell in 1996. Second stone, standing in 1910, stood c. 2.4m to SW; it measured c. 1.1m L, c. 0.4m T and 2.4m H. Third stones stood c. 1.5m to SW; it measured c. 0.9m L and 1.2m H. OS records (1933) note that stones were removed twenty years previously to form gate pillars (CO051-043002-) to N; depicted on 1938 OS 6-inch map as pair of stones, next to or in fence, c. 30m to N; E gate pillar remains (H 1.2m; 0.75m x 0.25m). Five-stone circle (CO051-043001-) stood c. 75m to WSW. (RIA MS 12. W.2, no. 32; Condon 1916, 129, No. 105; Walsh 1998)

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.

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 20 April 2015

References

Walsh, P. 1998 A 'most interesting set of stones' at Pluckanes North, Co. Cork. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 103, 141-51.

Condon, J.P. 1916 Rude stone monuments of the northern portion of Cork county. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 46, 58-76, 136-62.