Site Type: Stone Circle
Irish Grid Ref: W3724283846
Location: Link to Bing Maps
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| Carrigagulla NE in its wooded setting |
Description:
This stone circle is described on Archaeology.ie as follows;
"In gentle sloping bogland, on W side of Laney River valley. Circle of irregular outline; one entrance stone angled inwards from circumference. Orthostats are 0.5m to 1.2m L, 0.4m to 0.5m T and 0.5m to 1.2m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned ENE-WSW, is c. 2.5m. Multiple-stone circle (CO049-008----) 400m to SSW. (O Nualláin 1984a, 32, no. 56)"
This is a lovely 5 stone circle enclosed all around by coniferous woodland. Jack Roberts, who has been studying the stone circles of Cork & Kerry for over 30 years, suspects that this stone circle is aligned to the sun-set on the Feb - Nov Cross Quarter days. There are no sign-posts to this circle and it can be quite tricky to locate even when relatively close to it because of it being in woodland. The trees unfortunately are likely to block any views of sun-set here. The trees look to be grown commercially so hopefully they are due for harvesting in the next few years.
Links to photographs;
A picture of the Carrigagulla 5 Stone Circle by Michael Mithcell on his blog www.ancientstones.blogspot.com
Links for further information;
More information on Carrigagulla stone circle at Wikipedia
