What is recorded here

Stone Circle is a standing stone in County Cork, Ireland, belonging to the ancient megalithic tradition that built rings across the British Isles and Brittany from 3200 to 2000 BCE. It joins a vast network of monuments where people likely marked solar events, honoured the dead, or shaped ritual life before written history. The exact Cork site remains unnamed in the available facts, but it shares the same deep purpose as circles elsewhere: a place where human beings made the invisible visible through stone.

Within multiple-stone circle (6448), O Nualláin (1984a, 11) noted 'the internal monolith measured 85cm by 20cm and was 60cm high'. Both it and stone circle destroyed between 1963 and 1970. 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

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