Ardgroom
| Ardgroom Irish: Dhá Dhrom | |
| County Cork | |
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 "Ardgroom SW" ("Canfea") stone circle | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | V690553 |
| Location: | 51°44’23"N, 9°53’38"W |
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Ardgroom is a village on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork. The village is to the north of Glenbeg Lough, overlooking the Kenmare River estuary, between the coast and the Slieve Miskish Mountains. The village contains a shop, post office, a petrol station and "The Village Inn" pub.
The name 'Ardgroom' is from the Irish Dhá Dhrom, meaning 'Two drumlins'[1] which refers to two gravelly hills deposited by a glacier, Dromárd and Drombeg.
Stone circle
Near the village lie a number of megalithic monuments.[2] Signposted is the stone circle to be found to the east of the village at a distance of about a mile, off the old Kenmare road. It has the name "Canfea" but is normally called the "Ardgroom" stone circle.[3] About a mile north-east stand the remains of another stone circle.
The main circle consists of 11 stones, 9 of which are still upright with one alignment stone outside the circle.[4] Unusually for a stone circle, its stones tend to taper toward points.
Also in the vicinity are the remains of at least two ring forts and a number of standing stones and stone rows.[5]
References
- ↑ "Dhá Dhrom / Ardgroom". Placenames Database of Ireland. https://www.logainm.ie/1166985.aspx. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ↑ Murphy, Cornelius (1997). The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork. University College Cork.
- ↑ "Ardgroom SW stone circle". http://www.megalithia.com/sites/v707553.html. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ↑ "Ardgroom Outward (Stone Circle) - Ireland". The Modern Antiquarian.com. http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1917/.
- ↑ Recorded Monuments Protected under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1994 - County Cork. National Monuments and Historic Properties Service. 1998. p. 97. https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archaeology-RMP-Cork-Manual-2-(1998)-0008.pdf.