Knocknakilla
Knocknakilla ( Irish Cnoc na Cille , ( German "Hill of the Church" ) also called Mushera Beg) is a closely neighboring monument group in the townland of the same name in Millstreet County Park , consisting of a stone circle , a menhir ( English Standing Stone ) and a ring cairn , 7.8 km south of Millstreet in County Cork , Ireland .
The circle is a damaged five-stone circle , of which only the two portal stones and the western stone are in situ , while the "axial or lying stone" has overturned. The fifth stone is missing. To the southwest of the circle stands a large menhir, the remainder of a pair of stones, the other copy of which lies on the ground between the menhir and the circle. In 1970 a small ring cairn with a radial stone circle was discovered in the east of the circle while cutting peat .
Nearby is the complex of Cloghboola Beg ( An Chlochbhuaile Bheag ).
- Knocknakilla
Menhir standing stone
A replica of a dolmen
Overview in the fog
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 58
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3
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Coordinates: 52 ° 0 '22.4 " N , 9 ° 1' 26.5" W.