Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Canrooska, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canrooska
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.76671, -9.54286
- SMR number
- CO090-006002-
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 bog-covered S-facing slope of S extension of Barrabog mountain. Four stones survive measuring 0.8m to 1.3m L, 0.2m T and 0.45m to 1m H; N entrance stone leans heavily inwards. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 2.3m. Part of complex also comprises of stone row (CO090-00601-) c. 4m to S and cairn (CO090-00603-) c. 11m to SSE. (Ó Nualláin 1984, 39, no. 76)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.