Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Knocknaneirk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaneirk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.81807, -8.91351
- SMR number
- CO083-085002-
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 top of hill on N side of Bride River valley. Circle complete; partly incorporated in field fence. Orthostats are 1.1m to 1.7m L, 0.6m to 1.1m T and 0.9m to 1.6m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is c. 3.3m. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 39, no. 75)
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
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.