Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Bellmount Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellmount Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.82735, -8.83109
- SMR number
- CO083-117----
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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 flat pasture, on SE side of Bride River valley. Circle partly incorporated in field fence. Circle complete; orthostats are 1.1m to 1.5mL, 0.4m to 0.8m T and 0.7m to 1.2m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 3.4m. Five-stone circle (CO083-118----) c. 250m to ENE. (O Nualláin 1984a, 38-9, no. 74)
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 - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.