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CORK COUNTY COUNCIL HERITAGE ASSET SURVEY Drombeg Stone Circle

8/12/2020

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In 2014 Rubicon Heritage were commissioned by Cork County Council to undertake an audit of heritage assets owned by the County Council. The audit was intended to assess a wide variety of these properties by providing an overall background/description of the selected sites and identifying the main heritage characteristics and status/functionality of each. We have compiled a series of blogs based on the information gathered during the audit to highlight a number of the selected sites and the amazing archaeology in County Cork. This week we look at Drombeg Stone Circle. 
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​Drombeg Stone Circle is situated 3km east of the village of Glandore on an unnamed road off the R597. The site is well signposted and well-marked, with adequate parking facilities and numerous information boards. It is a ‘Cork-Kerry type’ stone circle, flanked by a pair of 1.8m high axial portal stones which provide a south-west axis, and orientate the monument in the direction of the setting sun during the midwinter solstice.

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The stone circle is situated in pasture on a natural rock terrace on the southern slope of a low hill. The arrangement measures 9m internally along the main northeast-southwest axis. The site was excavated in 1957, with a nearby Fulacht Fiadh and hut site 40m to the west later being excavated in 1958. The excavation revealed that the Stone Circle once comprised 17 standing stones - two missing and one fallen.
​The stones reduce in height from the portals to the axial stone. On the upper surface of the largest stone in the circle are two shallow cup-marks, one of which is surrounded by an oval carving. The 1957 excavation revealed five pits within the circle, sealed beneath a compacted gravel floor - one pit contained a deposit of cremated human bone, fragments of shale and numerous sherds of coarse fabric pot. Charcoal from the burial yielded a C14 determination of AD 600 ± 120 (D-62) which would be very recent for this type of monument - the date was described as 'clearly anomalous' by O Nualláin in his 1984 work. Other finds from circle included seven pieces of flint and a small convex scraper.

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