Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Tullyland, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullyland
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1942)
- Coordinates
- 51.73148, -8.68509
- SMR number
- CO110-062001-
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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 gentle NW-facing slope. Three upright stones aligned NE-SW.
Two stones to SW 4.8m apart while third stone is 19.4m to NE. South-western stone (H 1.6m; 1.45m x 0.5m) leaning to E; middle stone (H 1.77m; 1.5mx 0.85m) aligned NE-SW; stone to NE (H 1.2m; 1.3m x 0.67m) roughly oval insection. Marked "cromlech" on O.S. maps 1842 and 1903; according to Windelestones formed "segments of a great circle" (Ó Nualláin 1984, 49).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.