Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Glanbrack, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanbrack
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallauns (1900)
- Coordinates
- 51.64811, -9.05334
- SMR number
- CO121-059001-
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
In level pasture S of crest of ridge between valleys of Glashagloragh river to N and Argideen river to S. Circle incomplete; axial stone and two stones flanking it survive. They are 0.9m to 1.6m L, 0.2m to 0.5m T and 0.6m to 0.95m H. Main axis appears to be aligned NE-SW, c. 2.8m in greatest width. Two standing stones (CO121-059002-; CO121-059003-) nearby to W and SW. Multiple stone circle (CO121-057---) c. 850m to SW. (O Nuallláin 1984, 44, no. 90; Roberts 1988, Ch. 6, no. 10)
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 stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.