Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Maughanaclea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maughanaclea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.75395, -9.29723
- SMR number
- CO106-016001-
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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 pasture on shoulder on N slopes of Maughanaclea hills, overlooking Owngar river valley. Circle appears to have consisted of thirteen stones. Twelve survive, five of which, including S entrance stone are prostrate. Orthostats are 0.7m to 2.1m L, 0.3m to 0.5m T and 0.8m to 1.6m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 11.3m. Two boulder-burials (CO106-01602-; CO106-01603-) stand within circle. (Ó Nualláin 1984, 19, no. 23; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 36)
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.