What is recorded here

Five stones once ringed a bog saddle above the Blackwater valley, but only two uprights remain, leaning across a gap where the others fell or were taken. The western stone is broad and flat like a table edge, the eastern wider and stubbier like a doorjammer, and the missing stones may still lie buried beneath the moss or scattered along the slope. Whoever cut that circle worked on a ridge where rain comes from the sea and light fails early, marking a place small enough to walk around in minutes yet important enough to carry stone up a mountain.

Situated on a bog-covered saddle of the NE fringe of the Derrynasaggart Mountains rising to Claragh Mountain to the NE and overlooking the Blackwater valley to the NW. The stone circle is incomplete: two upright stones stand 1.27m apart. The W stone (1.15m x 0.28m; H 0.7m) is a probable axial stone and the E stone (0.67m x 0.47m; H 0.7m) is a possible entrance stone. The measurement along the presumed axis, atypically aligned NNW-SSE, is 1.6m. The relationship of the circle to two slabs lying prostrate to S (1.95m) and SW (1.4m) is unclear, possibly they are displaced orthostats. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, the stone circle may have had ritual or astronomical significance, possibly aligned with seasonal markers. Its incomplete nature and location on a prominent landscape feature suggest it was part of a broader ceremonial or territorial landscape.

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