Suspected Alignment / Alignments: Winter Solstice Sun-set
Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: W0362945394
Location: Link to Bing Maps
Description:
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"In pasture, on level patch of ground on E slopes of Spratt Hill. Circle complete; two stones embedded in fence. Stones are 1.1m to 1.5m L, 0.5m to 0.7m T and 1m to 1.2m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 3.9m. Interior filled with field stones. Standing stone (CO118-073002-) 60m to NE; boulder-burial (CO118-071003-) and cairn (CO118-071002-) 200m to W. (O Nualláin 1984, 42, no. 84; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 3)"
Jack Roberts, who has been studying the stone circles of Cork & Kerry for 30 years, suspects that this stone circle is aligned to the sun-set on the Winter Solstice.
Links to photographs;
Pictures of Cullomane East Stone Circle by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Michael Mitchell
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