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Stone circle - multiple-stone

Carrigagrenane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle - multiple-stone, Carrigagrenane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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