Cappaboy Beg
The four-post stone circle of Cappaboy Beg ( Irish An Cheapach Bhuí Bheag ) is located in the east of the townland , northeast of Kealkill in County Cork near the border with County Kerry in Ireland .
Four-post stone circles ( Engl. Four-poster stone circles called), also called "sky stone circles" are square or rectangular stone settings of four (rarely five) standing stones that only the British Isles occur, but regardless of the angular shape as a circle be understood. Excavations have shown that the angular stone settings are remnants of former stone circles. Although the exact date is missing, they are believed to be Bronze Age . The stones are usually graduated in height, with the tallest stone on the southwest or northeast corner. Their closest counterparts can be found in northern England and Scotland.
description
The stone circle at Cappaboy Beg is located on the moored northwest side of the Owvane Valley. The stones form a slight trapezoid.
The northeast stone is a block about 1.3 m high, 1.1 m wide and 0.7 m thick. It stands on a line with the south-western stone 2.5 m away, which is the largest in the circle with a height of about 2.8 m and width and thickness of 0.7 m. The other two stones are 0.95 m high and about 0.7 m apart. The east stone is about 0.6 m wide and 0.45 m thick. The west stone is 0.55 m wide and 0.5 m thick.
There is a menhir about 23 m to the southeast , a radial stone cairn is about 200 m to the northeast and a pair of stones is about 100 m to the southwest. These less numerous monuments are closely related to the stone circles in terms of date and function. Of the six examples identified in Ireland, four are in West Cork, one in Kerry, and one in Wexford .
Further stone circles and a row of stones lie west of the stone circle.
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. BAR, Oxford 1988, pp. 66-67.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 18 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 42" W.