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Knocknakilla Standing Stone
Date Added: 26th Mar 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Knocknakilla Standing Stone submitted by Klingon on 11th Apr 2005. This Standing Stone stands behind a hill, it isn't visible from the street.
Beware of the vicious biting donkey!
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Laharankeal Circle
Date Added: 10th Mar 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Laharankeal Circle submitted by GaelicLaird on 10th Mar 2021. Looking north east.
Photo taken January 2021.
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Laharankeal Row
Date Added: 10th Mar 2021
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Laharankeal Row submitted by GaelicLaird on 10th Mar 2021. The row points the way to the five stone circle in the next field the other side of the trees.
Photo taken January 2021.
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Leadawillin Stone
Date Added: 5th Mar 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 18th Feb 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Leadawillin Stone submitted by GaelicLaird on 5th Mar 2021. Photo taken February 2021.
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Loughane E
Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Loughane E submitted by GaelicLaird on 6th Apr 2020. Just off the sideline of the local soccer pitch. Photo taken April 2020.
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Log Text: Avoid visiting on a match day as this stone is only a few metres from the sideline of the local soccer pitch. Nice big stone though and only a very short walk from the roadside.
Maulmore Stones
Date Added: 17th Mar 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 16th Mar 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maulmore Stones submitted by Tom_Bullock on 4th Dec 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Meenahony north pair
Date Added: 27th Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Meenahony north pair submitted by GaelicLaird on 27th Jan 2021. Photo taken January 2021
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Meenahony south pair
Date Added: 27th Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Meenahony south pair submitted by GaelicLaird on 27th Jan 2021. Photo taken January 2021
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Log Text: Officailly recorded as monument CO050-073001-
On pasture, on SE slopes of Uctough Hill near head-waters of Shournagh River. Stones, aligned NE-SW, stand 1.6m apart; overall length is 3.65m. NE stone is 0.85m L, 0.5m T and 2.7m H. SW stone is 1.2m L, 0.3m T and 2.4m H. Standing stone (CO050-073003-) to NE and widely separated pair (CO050-073002-) 85m to NE. (O Nualláin 1988, 251, no. 163)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997).
Newcastle Standing Stones
Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Newcastle Standing Stones submitted by GaelicLaird on 6th Apr 2020. Only two stones remaining. Photo taken April 2020.
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Log Text: Only two stones remaining. Approx NE / SW orientation. Watch out for cows.
Oughtihery anomalous stone group
Date Added: 25th Mar 2021
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Would like to visit
Oughtihery anomalous stone group submitted by GaelicLaird on 17th Mar 2021. Photo taken March 2021.
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Oughtihery NW
Date Added: 12th Mar 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Oughtihery NW submitted by GaelicLaird on 12th Mar 2021. Looking through the portal stones.
Unfortunately the circle is filled with stones from field clearance.
Photo taken January 2021.
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Oughtihery SE
Date Added: 8th Feb 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Oughtihery SE submitted by GaelicLaird on 8th Feb 2021. The location of two missing stones can be made out by the gaps on the left and centre of the photo.
Photo taken January 2021.
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Piercetown
Date Added: 16th Apr 2021
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Piercetown submitted by GaelicLaird on 16th Apr 2021. View to the north west.
Photo taken April 2021.
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Rooves Beg
Date Added: 25th Apr 2021
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Rooves Beg submitted by GaelicLaird on 25th Apr 2021. Photo taken April 2021.
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Rooves More Standing Stones
Date Added: 25th Apr 2021
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rooves More Standing Stones submitted by GaelicLaird on 25th Apr 2021. The view North.
Photo taken April 2021.
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Rylane Circle
Date Added: 10th Jan 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rylane Circle submitted by KiwiJon on 10th Jan 2008. This is a rather lovely, if slightly neglected 5 stone circle near Rylane, map ref. 439813
The recumbent appears to have been disturbed at some stage and no longer lies parallel with the horizon
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Log Text: Nice compact five stone circle. Aligned NE-SW with internal measurement along main axis approx 3.5m.
Whilst here,check out the standing stone a couple of fields away....it's worth a view.
Rylane Stone
Date Added: 10th Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rylane Stone submitted by GaelicLaird on 10th Jan 2021. Looking to the south west
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Log Text: Officially recorded as monument number CO061-002
In pasture, beside Rylane River.
Large stone (H 2m; 2.77m x 0.3m) is subrectangular in plan, in recumbent position; long axis NE-SW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997).
Scrahanard Dolmen
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Wedge Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Would like to visit
Scrahanard Dolmen submitted by Klingon on 8th Apr 2005. Text from a plate at the site:
Wedge tomb SMR co059-101/01
Cordprises gallery aligned E-W. Two sidestones to N and S, and backstone outside gallery walls at E end. Two outer wall stones and possible buttress-stone exposed along N side. Gallery covered by single roofstone; surrounded by mound incorporating field clearance which merges with fence to W. Inner face of backstone has deeply incised scorings; age and nature of this feature are uncertain.
The design of wedge tombs is relatively...
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South Kilcullen cist and Ogham stone
Date Added: 14th Mar 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Would like to visit
South Kilcullen cist and Ogham stone submitted by KiwiJon on 10th Jan 2008. These are the pair in the distance (seen from Kicullen stone pair), and in the field on the opposite side of the road. A remarkable pair of pairs that bear little or no resemblance to each other. Curiouser and Curiouser
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Teergay
Date Added: 15th Jun 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Teergay submitted by GaelicLaird on 15th Jun 2021. Photo taken June 2021.
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