Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Knocks (carbery East (w.d) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocks (carbery East (w.d) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1900)
- Coordinates
- 51.65945, -9.01309
- SMR number
- CO121-063----
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 ground in rolling pasture of headwaters of Ihernagh river of Argideen river. Ten of eleven stones survive, including axial stone and two radially-set entrance stones. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.2m L, 0.2m to 0.7m T and 0.6m to 1.1m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned E-W, is 8.9m. (O Nualláin 1984, 20, no. 28; Roberts 1988, Ch. 6, 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.