Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Dromree, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromree
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.93292, -8.96467
- SMR number
- CO059-157----
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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
On level patch of ground at foot of gentle SSE-facing slope. Five stones widely spaced over an area c. 50m x 30m. Stones measure 0.57m to 1.4m in H, 0.5m to 1.03m in Wth and 0.27m to 0.7m T. Sixth stone, recorded by O Nualláin (1984a, 48) at SW side, no longer exists.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.