Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: W4293364222
Location: Link to Bing Maps
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| Bellmount Upper looking through the portal stones |
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"In pasture, near summit of low hill. Site overlooks five-stone circle (CO083-117----) c. 250m to WSW. Two entrance stones and S side stone erect; N sidestone prostrate and axial stone shattered. Orthostats are 0.9m to 1.5m L,0.4m to 0.6m T and 0.8m to 1.2m H. Estimated internal measurement alongmain axis, aligned E-W, is c. 3m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 38, no. 73)"
This circle is quite near the road but is on private property. Three of the five stones appear to be still standing. There is another five stone circle within a few hundred metres of it. Jack Roberts, who has been studying the stone circles of Cork & Kerry for over 30 years, suspects that this stone circle is aligned to the sun-set on the Equinox days.
Links to photographs;
Pic of Bellmount Upper stone circle on Tom Fourwinds site www.megalithomania.com
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