Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Ballynacarriga (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarriga (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59104, -10.15241
- SMR number
- CO126-025003-
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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 rough moorland, on the promontory leading to Crow Head at the tip of the Beara Peninsula. A group of thirteen stones of varying shapes and sizes protrude separately and randomly above the surface of shallow bog over an area c. 20m N-S. The tallest stone (H 0.95m; 0.7m x 0.4m) has its long axis NE-SW and stands near the middle of the group. Two other smaller stones are upright and the remainder are either leaning, fallen or boulder-like. This area is known locally as 'Áit a' Ghalláin' (the place of the gallaun). An enclosure (CO126-025004-) with an internal hut site (CO126-025005-) lies c. 100m to the SW and a coastal promontory fort (CO126-025001-) is 190m to the S.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.