Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
An Lománach Mhór, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Lománach Mhór
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92406, -9.24707
- SMR number
- CO069-076----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rough pasture, 30m E of Sullane River between ridges of outcropping rock. Circle complete; interior filled with field clearance stones. Entrance stones parallel, set end-on to circumference. Orthostats are 0.9m to 1.1m L, 0.17m to 0.55m T and 0.8m to 1m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned ENE-WSW, is 2.1m.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Souterrain1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.