Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Dromgarriff South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromgarriff South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Standing Stone (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.99135, -8.54902
- SMR number
- CO051-153----
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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 pasture, on E side of broad basin of River Martin. Probable five-stone circle; one stone survives (H 1.25m; 0.75m x 0.25m). Nineteenth century sketch and note record three erect and two prostrate stones (diam. c. 3m) and 'An earthen vessel found here by diggers, broken'. (O Nualláin 1984a, 34, no. 60)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.