Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Tooms West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooms West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.87388, -8.95529
- SMR number
- CO071-160----
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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 scrubland, on a north-facing slope overlooking the Gearagh. Ring of five sandstone boulders on a NW/SE axis (4.40m E-W, 3.60m N-S), with inclusions of smaller stones including quartz. Stone A, on the southwest side, is the only upright stone of the group (height 0.70m, width 1.00m). Stone B, 1.30m to the northeast, is a recumbent boulder (0.89cm NE/SW, 0.90c, NW/SE). Stone C, 1m to the east of Stone B, is a recumbent boulder (1.20m NE/SW, 0.50cm NW/SE). About 0.90cm to the southeast of Stone C is another recumbent boulder, Stone D (1.26m N/S; 0.86m W/E). Stone E, immediately to the southwest of Stone C, and about 1.30m east of from Stone A, is covered in vegetation and difficult to assess; a small quartz boulder is situated at its base. The monument is known locally as a ‘grave’.
Compiled by: Dr Bernadette McCarthy
Date of upload/revision: 21 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.