Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Derrynafinchin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrynafinchin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.80430, -9.38155
- SMR number
- CO092-001001-
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
On W-facing slope near N end of narrow valley of Coomhola river. Circle incomplete, contains considerable amount of fill. May have consisted of eleven, or less likely, thirteen stones. Nine stones survive; five prostrate; indicate circle c. 8m in diameter. Orthostats are 0.8m to 1.3m L, 0.2m to 0.5m T and 0.9m H. Boulder burial (CO092-00102-) centrally placed within circle. (Ó Nualláin 1984, 16, no. 16)
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.