Stone Circle in Garryglass, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture on N-facing slope 1.4km SW of Curraghalicky lake. One stone stands at site of monument, 0.9m L, 0.4m T and 0.4m H. OS Name Book (1841) records ....'a druidical circle here consisting of eleven stones placed in a ring about a central one varying in height from 21/2 to 3 feet'. (O Nualláin 1984, 20, no. 27; Roberts 1988, Ch. 6, no. 5) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO120-062

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