Cappanaboul stone circle

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The stone circle of Cappanaboul is located about southwest of Kealkill, east of Ballylickey, above the Cappanaboul Lough (lake) in the townland of Cappanaboul ( Irish Ceapach na bPoll , German  "farmland of holes" ) in County Cork in Ireland . It is also named after the neighboring townland Brinny More or Breeny More, Na Bruíne Móra .

It's a well-preserved multiple stone circle . The archaeologist Seán Ó Nualláin calls the Irish group of multiple circles axial stone circles (ASC). Of the axial circle originally consisting of 13 stones, only nine are left. The axial stone and a portal stone are among the missing which make it difficult to see the alignment.

The slightly oval circle has a diameter of 10.2 by 9.3 meters.

literature

  • Seán Ó Nualláin: The Stone Circle Complex of Cork and Kerry In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. 105 1975 pp. 83-131
  • Seán Ó Nualláin: Stone Circles in Ireland. Country House, Dublin 1995, pp. 35-43, ISBN 0-946172-45-5 .
  • Denis Power: Archaeological inventory of County Cork, Volume 3: Mid Cork, 6435 P10. ColorBooks, 1997, ISBN 0-7076-4933-1 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 43'26.5 "  N , 9 ° 23'53.4"  W.