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
- 51.88421, -8.82936
- SMR number
- CO071-106----
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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 terrace of N-facing slope on S side of Kame River valley. Circle complete; axial and two side stones prostrate. N entrance stone, leaning markedly to S, is 1.5m L, 0.6m T and 1.1m H. S entrance stone is 1m L, 0.5mT and 0.9m H. Interior of circle dug out (D 0.4m). Estimated measurement along main axis, aligned E-W, is c. 3m. Five-stone circle (6467) 250m to SW. (O Nualláin 1984a, 38, no. 71)
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.