Carrigadrohid: Standing Stone Pair CO071-063
NGR 141708/072699
This standing stone pair was excavated (Fahy 1957) prior to being submerged by the waters of the Lee Valley reservoir. Nothing was found.References
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland, record details. www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland
- POWER, D. et al. 1997 Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume III: Mid Cork. Dublin: Stationary Office. p29, no.6541.
- FAHY, E.M. 1957 Standing Stones at Carrigadrohid. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 62:73-74.
- Ó'NUALLÁIN, SEÁN 1988 Stone Rows in the South of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88c:179-256, p244, no.103.
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Carrigagulla: Stone Row CO049-023
NGR 138400/082910
This row is within a forestry plantation. A limited rescue excavation was undertaken to try and locate the original socket for a fallen and accidentally damaged stone. A full EDM survey was undertaken in the area of the monument and two trenches were opened to the east of the two in situ stones. Nothing was found.References
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland, record details. www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland
- POWER, D. et al. 1997 Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume III: Mid Cork. Dublin: Stationary Office. p24, no.6507.
- O'CALLAGHAN, NIAMH 2003 Cork 2003:0186 Carrigagulla. www.excavations.ie.
- Ó'NUALLÁIN, SEÁN 1988 Stone Rows in the South of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88c:179-256, p232, no.10.
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Dromteewakeen: Stone Row & Possible Boulder-burial KE082-007001/2
NGR 76254/80758
This was a rescue excavation of a badly damaged site (Sheehan 1990) and it seems that no plan or section diagrams were published. Basal peat from near the row had previously produced a date of 985 ± 45 bp (Lynch 1981:103-107). The possible boulder-burial noted by Ó'Nualláin (1988) was completely destroyed and "no finds and no features survived". Close to the tallest, north-eastern stone of the Three Stone Row, a series of five stake-holes occurred in a charcoal-enriched layer which was partly overlain by a low mound of stony upcast. The excavator has stated (1996) that the stakeholes may not be contemporary with the monument. This is true of course and it is quite possible that the stakes were markers forming part of the setting out arrangements prior to construction.It has been claimed (Lynch 1982:207) that the axis of this row indicates summer solstice sunrise. Ruggles (1999, 1996, 1995) did not agree, giving the indicated azimuth a range of 13 degrees and placing the declination between 25.2 & 36 to the north-east and to the south-west, between -16.8 & -21.8.
References
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland, record details. www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland
- BYRNE, ELIZABETH, et.al. 2009 Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry, Volume 1: South West Kerry. Dublin: Stationary Office. p24, no.90; p32, no.131.
- LYNCH, ANN 1981 Man and the Environment in South-West Ireland, 4000 BC-AD 800. BAR British Series 85. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
- LYNCH, ANN 1982 Astronomy and Stone Alignments in S.W. Ireland. In Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, edited by D. Heggie, pp.205-213. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ó'NUALLÁIN, SEÁN 1988 Stone Rows in the South of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88c:179-256, p238, no.63.
- O'SULLIVAN, ANN & SHEEHAN, JOHN 1996 The Iveragh Peninsula. An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry. Cork: Cork University Press. No.108.
- SHEEHAN, J. 1989 Kerry 1989:052 Dromteewakeen. www.excavations.ie
- SHEEHAN, J. 1990 Dromteewakeen. Stone row and possible boulder burial. In Excavations 1989, edited by I. Bennet, p30. Dublin: Wordwell.
- RUGGLES, C.L.N. 1999 Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. CKR28.
- RUGGLES, C.L.N. 1996 Stone Rows of Three or More Stones in South-West Ireland. Archaeoastronomy 21 (Journal of the History of Astronomy xxvii) S55-S71.
- RUGGLES, C.L.N. & Burl, H.A.W. 1995 Astronomical Influences on Prehistoric Ritual Architecture in North-Western Europe: The Case of the Stone Rows. Vistas in Astronomy 39:517-528. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.
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Shanlaragh: Standing Stone Pair CO094-045
NGR 12573/05933
This pair was at the edge of a working gravel quarry and very little topsoil remained around them. Excavation was limited to the south and east of the stones because of the proximity of the quarry edge. The fill of the sockets consisted of a grey-brown, gravel-rich, silty sand with occasional tiny fragments of charcoal scattered throughout. That of the north-east stone also included fragments of burnt bone. No artifacts were found.The quarry has since ceased working and been returned to agricultural use. The area around the pair is heavily overgrown with furze.
References
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland, record details. www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland
- POWER, D. et al. 1997 Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 1: West Cork. Dublin: Stationary Office. p44, no.20
- Ó'NUALLÁIN, SEÁN 1988 Stone Rows in the South of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88c:179-256, p246, no.6.
- O'SHAUGHNESSY, JANE 1990 Cork 1990:020 Shanlaragh. www.excavations.ie.