Corick
Corick ( Irish Comhrac , German "meeting" ) is a site of stone circles and rows and the name of a townland in the Civil parish Ballynascreen in the District Mid Ulster , in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland . There are five circles (one with a large menhir in the middle) and three better-preserved rows of stones.
The stone circles and the mostly almost exactly north-south oriented rows of stones are located near a stream about 2.0 km northeast of the Court Tomb of Ballybriest . Three are well preserved and are made of stones with heights of 0.3 to 1.6 m. Within a row there are two large stones that could be the remains of a grave. The remains of a stone circle, of which only six stones survived on the west side and with a large central stone ligen in the northwest. The village of Corick is 400 meters south. Another 400 meters south are the remains of beehive huts (marked on the map as Standing Stones).
See also
literature
- Aubrey Burl: Rings of stone. The prehistoric stone circles of Britain and Ireland. Frances Lincoln Publishers et al., London 1979, ISBN 0-906459-03-6 .
Web links
- Stone circle: description & pictures
- Stone row: description & pictures
- [Corick: Environment and Heritage Service - Scheduled Historic Monuments]
Coordinates: 54 ° 44 ′ 54 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 27.7 ″ W.