Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Ballyfoyle, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfoyle
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18521, -6.45281
- SMR number
- WI005-005----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope within a cleared area to the E of the forest track. Five boulders form a circle (dims. 5.5m E-W; 6m N-S), with the two tallest at the NW while the remaining stones descend in height to the lowest, which lies perpendicular to the symmetrical axis of the circle and appears to represent a recumbent.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 05 July 2013
Revised by: Claire Breen
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.