What is recorded here

Ten tall pillars still stand on the Beara moorland, one has fallen and one has vanished, leaving a narrow NNE-SSW chamber beneath Coomacloghare mountain. The stones are not a smooth ring but a tight, uneven circle, perhaps made for exclusion as much as gathering. A separate stone waits six metres east, like a witness kept at a distance.

On level moorland, at foot of Coomacloghare mountain, on N side of Beara peninsula. Circle consists of eleven stones, one now prostrate, another missing. Stones, including axial stone, are tall pillars 0.4m to 0.9m L, 0.25m to 0.3m T and 1.3m to 2.1m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW is c. 7.25m. Stone lying on perimeter to NW, does not appear to be original part of circle. Standing stone (CO102-00602-) 6m to E. (O Nualláin 1984, 18, no. 21) 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

Likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, the stone circle at Ardgroom Outward may have functioned as a ceremonial or astronomical site. No specific folklore is recorded, but such circles are often associated with ritual activity or territorial markers in prehistoric landscapes.

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