Three Stone Circles in county Cork
photographed by the late
Tom Bullock,


author of the CD-ROM 'Stone Circles of the British Isles'

and Tom FourWinds.




1.
Knocknaneirk (North)

W 371 632 - Sheet 86

Nearest village: Kilmurry


Note the interesting shape of the axial-stone in this classic 'five-stoner'.

photo by Ian Thompson


2.
Knocknaneirk (South)

W 371 626 - Sheet 86


Looking between the large portal-stones to the long axial stone.


3.
Maughanaclea

W 105 554 - Sheet 85

Nearest town: Dunmanway


Twelve of the original thirteen stones survive, five of them fallen.
Inside the circle, which is over 10 metres in diameter, are two boulder-burials.

 

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