Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Dunbeacon, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbeacon
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.59573, -9.54908
- SMR number
- CO130-030----
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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
On W shoulder of Mount Corrin, near inner S end of Dunmanus Bay. Circle incomplete; six erect and five prostrate stones indicate circle of eleven stones. Orthostats are 0.8m to 1.3m L, 0.15m to 0.5m T and 1.6m to 1.9m H. Internal diameter of circle is c. 8m. At centre of circle, standing stone (H 1.1m; 1.7m x 0.3m) leans heavily to S. (O Nualláin 1984, 22, no. 32; Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, no. 50).
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
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.