Maughanasilly Stone Row
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Maughanasilly Stone Row is a Bronze Age stone row in County Cork, which has been declared a 'National Monument'.
- Location map: 51°46’14"N, 9°23’13"W
The stone row is located to the northeast of Lough Atooreen, on the eastern slopes of Knockbreteen, a mile and a half north of Kealkill. Another stone circle stands at Illane, less than a mile north of Maughanasilly.[1]
Excavation
It was excavated in 1977 by Ann Lynch.[2][3] Shallow pits were found with quartz pebbles scattered around. Two flint scrapers were also found.
Description
There are five standing stones and one prostrate stone, aligned approximate NE-SW.[4] The tallest stone is four feet high and weighs about 8 tons.[5]
References
- ↑ Maughanasilly (Cork):: Stone Row or Alignment: Megalithomania
- ↑ Moody, Theodore William; Martin, Francis X.; Byrne, Francis John; Cosgrove, Art (9 November 1976). A New History of Ireland: Prehistoric and early Ireland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198217374. https://books.google.com/books?id=2rwRDAAAQBAJ&q=Maughanasilly&pg=PA1060.
- ↑ "A return to Maughanasilly and Kealkill". http://ancientstones.blogspot.ie/2014/03/a-return-to-maughanasilly-and-kealkill.html.
- ↑ Wilson, Mike. "Maughanasilly Stone Row ~ mega-what.com Ancient Sacred Places". http://www.mega-what.com/sites/Maughanasilly/index.html.
- ↑ "Maughanasilly". http://www.irishstones.org/place.aspx?p=1022.
- Maughnasilly Stone Row: Megalithic Monuments of Ireland
- Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Celtic studies, history, linguistics and literature, 9 November 1988
- Lynch, Ann: Man and environment in South-West Ireland, 4000 B.C.-A.D. 800: a study of man's impact on the development of soil and vegetation (9 November 1981)
- Edwards, Kevin J.; Warren, William P.: The Quaternary history of Ireland (9 November 1985) ISBN 9780122327308
