Derrynafinchin stone circle
The Derrynafinchin stone circle ( Irish Doire na Fuinseann ) is located on a back road between Kilgarvan and Bantry on the western slope of Conigar Mountain, near the northern end of the narrow valley of the Coomhola River in County Cork , Ireland .
There are 187 stone circles in the Republic of Ireland . The majority is in County Cork , with 103 counties . 20 counties are in County Kerry and 11 in County Mayo . The multiple stone circle of the Cork-Kerry series could originally have consisted of eleven or thirteen stones, nine of which survived. Five lie on the circle, which is about 8.0 m in diameter. One of the fallen stones is on the side of the road. The orthostats are 0.9 m high, 1.3 to 0.8 m wide and 0.5 to 0.2 m thick. In the circle there is a quartz stone and a porthole . There is a box-like structure on the axial stone, suggesting that the circle was used as a mass rock .
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 .
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 15.6 " N , 9 ° 22 ′ 53.8" W.