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Stone Circle in Cappanaboul

Stone circle, multiple-stone
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On small platform on bog-covered SW extension of Maughanaclea hills overlooking Owenbeg river basin. Circle incomplete; appears to have consisted of thirteen stones. Ten survive, two of these prostrate. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.3m L, 0.2m to 0.4m T and 0.7m to 1.5m H. One stone, 0.4m H, appears to have been broken. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned E-W, is 10.5m. Boulder-burial (CO105-029002-) centrally placed within circle. (O Nualláin 1984, 18, no. 22; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 25) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO105-029001

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