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Stone circle - multiple-stone

Kealagowlane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle - multiple-stone, Kealagowlane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kealagowlane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.71221, -9.62689
SMR number
CO104-027001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a terrace on a S-facing slope of Sugar Loaf mountain, overlooking Bantry Bay to the S. This stone circle is incomplete: it may have consisted of eleven stones of which four are upright or leaning and seven prostrate or displaced. Orthostats are 0.57m to 1.25m L, 0.17m to 0.4m T and 0.6m to 1.4m H. The estimated measurement along the presumed main axis, aligned NE-SW, is c. 7.7m. There is a possible entrance stone at NE and a fallen axial stone at SW. An internal boulder-burial (CO104-027002-) lies off-centre to N. Part of a relict field boundary (CO104-027007-) runs roughly NW-SE immediately S of the stone circle. A cairn (CO104-027003-) stands 66m to the NNW, two burnt mounds (CO104-027004-, CO104-027005-) 86m and 97m to the NW respectively, and a fulacht fia (CO104-027006-) is 113m to the WNW.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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