Suspected Alignment / Alignments: Feb - Nov Cross Quarter Sun-set
Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: V9897856616
Location: Link to Bing Maps
Description:
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"In flat patch of rough pasture, c. 50m W of Cooleenlemane river. Circle complete; entrance stones, set end-on to circumference, are broken; only stumps remain. The five orthostats are 0.6m to 1m L, 0.15m to 0.2m T and the three intact stones are 0.75m to 1.2m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NE-SW, is 2.5m. Complex comprises of three boulder burials (CO105-004001-) to SW, and pair of standing stones (CO105-004005-) to S. (O Nualláin 1984, 40, no. 80; Roberts 1988, Ch. 5, no. 33)."
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 Feb - Nov Cross Quarter days.
Links to photographs;
Pictures of Mill Little Stone Circle by www.themodernantiquarian.com contributor Michael Mitchell
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