Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Currabeha (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currabeha (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.82574, -8.85386
- SMR number
- CO083-110----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rolling pasture land, on SE-facing slope of Bride River valley. Circle incomplete; may have consisted of thirteen stones. Ten erect stones and three prostrate slabs survive, including axial stone and entrance stones. Orthostats are 0.7m to 2m L, 0.4m to 0.8m T and 0.5m to 1.4m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 8.8m. Quartz block (H 0.6m; 0.7m x 0.4m) stands within circle just E of main axis. Multiple-stone circle (CO083-109002-) stands 320m to NNW. (Ó Nualláin 1984, 16, no. 15)
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 - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.