Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Ahagilla (ibane And Barryroe By., Castleventry Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahagilla (ibane And Barryroe By., Castleventry Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.64115, -8.96306
- SMR number
- CO121-100----
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 pasture, just off crest of hill which overlooks headwaters of Argideenriver. Circle incomplete, contains considerable amount of field clearance.Three stones survive including axial stone, S entrance stone and anotherflanking it to S. Orthostats are 0.45m to 0.77m L, 0.15m to 0.37m T and 0.47m to 1.35m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 7m. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 1, no. 20)
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.