Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Grenagh South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grenagh South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.00751, -8.62905
- SMR number
- CO051-103----
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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
Probable five-stone circle. Destroyed between 1933 and 1963. In shallow valley opening E to Martin River basin. Earlier accounts record two entrance stones and axial stone with prostrate slab between them at centre. Orthostats were c. 1.1m to c. 2.2m L, c. 0.17m to 0.45m T and c. 0.9m to c. 1.2m H. Overall measurement along main axis, aligned approximately NE-SW, was c. 4.4m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 33-4, no. 59)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.