Stone circle in Forristeen, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On level to gently S-facing ground in a farmyard. This 'stone circle' is reputed to have stood in front of the present house and to have been destroyed in 1952. It apparently consisted of a ring of forty small boulders ("few over 45cm (18") high") 9m (30') in diameter (ITA Survey 1943; Churcher 1985, 12-13). There is no visible surface indication of this monument.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI015-018

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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