Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: W0343353268
Location: Link to Bing Maps
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"On small platform on bog-covered SW extension of Maughanaclea hills overlooking Owenbeg river basin. Circle incomplete; appears to have consisted of thirteen stones. Ten survive, two of these prostrate. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.3m L, 0.2m to 0.4m T and 0.7m to 1.5m H. One stone, 0.4m H, appears to have been broken. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned E-W, is 10.5m. Boulder-burial (CO105-029002-) centrally placed within circle. (O Nualláin 1984, 18, no. 22; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 25)."
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.
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Picture of Cappanaboul Stone Circle by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Michael Mitchell
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