Stone circles from Cashelkeelty
The stone circles of Cashelkeelty ( Irish Caiseal Coillte ) - "Circle East or 1" and "Circle West or 2" - are stone circles of the Cork-Kerry series (after Seán Ó Nualláin also called Axial Stone Circle - axial stone circle ) and lie on Lauragh the Beara Peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland .
Cashelkeelty East (1)
The better preserved stone circle of the so-called "Five-stone-circles" is located 800 m south of the Lauragh-Castletownbere road and about 3.2 km southwest of the Lauragh Bridge, next to a ledge ( location ). The remains of a 5 stone circle consist of three standing boulders. Just south of the circle are three outliers ( English outlier ) in an over 6.0-meter-long stone row . Traces of prehistoric field walls can be found in the south and east. The remains of a row of stones lie 150 m to the west. Immediately to the north is the medieval road from Kenmare to Castletownberehaven, recognizable as a wide, grassy path. The flat stone in the middle covers a cremation (from 970 to 715 BC). The standing pit of the second entrance stone lies under the gorse.
Cashelkeelty West (2)
The diameter of the poorly preserved, about 75 m away multiple stone circle Cashelkeelty West was about 16.8 m ( location ). This makes it one of the largest in the southwest of the island. The number of stones preserved is three of the original eleven or thirteen stones. In contrast to the five-stone ones, boulder burials (Kenmare) or menhirs (Gortanimill) can be found in the center of the larger circles . Some are surrounded by ramparts and moats ( Glentane East , Reanascreena ).
Nearby is the Shronebirrane stone circle .
literature
- Seán Ó Nualláin: Stone Circles in Ireland. Country House Dublin, 1995, ISBN 0-946172-45-5 , pp. 35-43.
- Denis Power: Archaeological inventory of County Cork, Volume 3: Mid Cork, 6435 P10. ColorBooks, 1997, ISBN 0-7076-4933-1 .
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