Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Knockavullig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockavullig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88210, -8.83092
- SMR number
- CO071-068----
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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 tract, in rolling pasture on SW side of Kame River valley. Circle complete; W entrance stone and E side stone are prostrate. Orthostats are 1m to 2m L, 0.3m to 0.9m T and 0.8m to 1.1m H. Estimated internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is c. 2.3m. Five-stone circle (6468) stands 250m to NE. (O Nualláin 1984a, 38, no. 72)
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
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.