Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Coolaclevane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolaclevane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.82389, -9.03467
- SMR number
- CO082-066----
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
On heathy bogland plateau, overlooking Lee River valley to N. Circle incomplete. Early account indicates circle of nine stones with two further stones set beyond entrance to form short passage; these are now missing. Five erect and three prostrate slabs survive, including inner entrance stones and axial stone. Orthostats are 0.9m to 1.3m L, 0.4m to 0.75m T and 0.5 to 0.9m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned ENE-WSW, is 7.5m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 15, no. 13)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.