Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Kilboultragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilboultragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.92988, -8.98866
- SMR number
- CO059-151----
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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
Monument destroyed between 1963 and 1970. It stood on level patch of arable land. Early accounts indicate circle of nine or perhaps eleven stones, c. 9m diam., with internal block near centre (H 0.6m; 0.6m x 0.6m). Orthostats were 0.6m to 1.5m L, 0.2m to 0.6m T and 0.45m to 0.9m H. (O Nualláin 1984a, 13-4, no. 7)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.