Pair of stones from Coolcoulaghta

The pair of stones from Coolcoulaghta are part of a row of stones in a field in the townland of Coolcoulaghta ( Irish Cuar Chuallachta ), about 3.2 km southwest of Durrus near Bantry in County Cork in Ireland .

The menhirs are about 1.8 m tall. A third stone originally stood 63 m southwest of the couple; this has been removed. The two stones were also removed in 1980 but were re-erected by the Public Works Office in 1983 following a local protest, using a plan drawn up by archaeologists from the Ordnance Survey in 1977 .

The stones may come from the Bronze Age . They are aligned 400 m to the west on the stone circle of Dunbeacon . The purpose of menhirs ( English standing stones ) is unclear; they could have served as boundary markers, burial sites, ritual or ceremonial sites, or astrological alignments.

literature

• Denis Power (1997). Archaeological inventory of County Cork, Volume 3: Mid Cork, 6435 P10. ColorBooks. ISBN 0-7076-4933-1

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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 36 ″  W.