What is recorded here

Nine or eleven stones once ringed a Cork hilltop, now reduced to five erect giants and scattered slabs. They stand seven metres across in rolling pasture, marking a broken circle that may have held an entrance gap for people walking toward the centre. The stones still touch the sky while their missing partners lie hidden beneath grass, waiting for someone to imagine the shape they lost.

On hilltop, in rolling pasture land. Circle incomplete; appears to have consisted of nine or perhaps eleven stones. Five erect stones and number of prostrate slabs survive, including probable entrance stones. Orthostats are 0.8m to 1.2m L, 0.5m to 0.7m T and 0.5m to 0.9m H. Internal diameter of circle is c. 7m. Multiple-stone circle (CO083-110----) 320m to SSE. (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 16, no. 14) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Currabeha may have been used for ritual, astronomical observation, or as a communal gathering site. Entrance stones suggest ceremonial access, though local folklore or specific meaning is not recorded.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.