Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Scronagare, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scronagare
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.93018, -9.06912
- SMR number
- CO059-117----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Depicted as pair of standing stones on 1842, 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Group of sandstone boulders, three of which are set in upright position. Stone to SE (H 1.05m; 0.75m x 0.35m) irregular in plan; long axis NNE-SSW. Second stone to NNW (H 1m; 0.7m x 0.3m) roughly rectangular in plan; long axis E-W. Third stone stands immediately to W of second stone; long axis NNW-SSE. Stones to SE and NNW are well matched and splayed at angles to each other (at NE end 1.75m apart; at SW end 2.4m apart). O Nualláin (pers. comm.) suggested that the present three-stone arrangement could conceivably be interpreted as back of megalithic tomb.
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.