Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Carrigagrenane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigagrenane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.63707, -9.07805
- SMR number
- CO134-008----
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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, at E foot of Carrigfadda hill. Circle incomplete; fence on W perimeter may conceal some orthostats. Appears to have consisted of nineteen stones. Thirteen stones survive, one prostrate. Entrance stones radially set; in line with these externally, are two additional stones which form an entrance passage. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.4m L, 0.1m to 0.7m T and 0.4m to 1.1m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is c. 8.5m. Documentary sources indicate that standing stone stood at, or near, centre of circle. Five-stone circle (CO121-054---) c. 700m to NE. (O Nualláin 1984, 22, no. 33; Roberts 1988, Ch. 6, no. 12)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.