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This stone circle again is very close to the road. A new road way (not on the OS map) has now been built alongside it going into a house. Best to park outside and away from this road and walk up to avoid any access problems. Its a lovely stone circle hidden away in almost its own little enclosed space.
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This stone circle is very easy to find and access. It is very close to the tiny hamlet of Reananerree. It is a lovely 5 stone circle on some bleak countryside with views to the north and west.
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This is actually a 5 stone circle although its hard to make it out from the pictures. Two of the stones are actually in the hedge and there is a drain right behind it.
The circle is a number of fields in from the road, you have to pass through a huge ring-fort to get there and for me it was a lovely walk. The stone circle is hidden away up in the right hand corner of a field.
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This stone circle is only a few miles outside Macroom on the Macroom to Killarney road. It is just one field in from the road. However the day I visited there were cows in the field that the circle was in so could only view it from the ditch next door.
What I really liked about the circle was its name, the castle nearby to it is know as Castle Carrigaphooca or the castle of the rock of the ghost or púca.
I dont know much about the folklore of the area, was the rock that the castle built on associated with ghosts / fairies or was the stone circle what originally gave the area its name.
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This is fine block of a standing stone about 2m high by 0.5m wide in lands grazed by sheep. There is a stone circle 200m to the north west of it. The stone circle is on the other side of some very marshy land so best to take the track marked on the map rather than cutting across country.
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This damaged stone circle was very tricky to find. I even had the 8 digit grid reference number from the inventory and even with that it was difficult to find. There is a fine standing stone about 200m from it and that is easy to find. I tried making my way from the standing stone to the circle but ended up getting soaked in marshy land.
I went back out to the road where I had parked and tried from that side. I had almost given up when it my gps showed it was in the middle of some undergrowth but kept going and found the two portal stones of the circle. There were also about 3 other stones remaining.
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This stone circle is not far off the road south of Toon Bridge. When I visited it was fairly overgrown however you could make out that it was impressive circle and fairly intact. Jack Roberts mentions that it is aligned to 228° and to the winter solstice.
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This stone row is less than a km from the Carriganine stone circle. It is just to the side of a house in a field and is difficult to see from the road.
Its a lovely 3 stone alignment, the stones are about 1.2m high. The middle stone has an unusual depression in it, looks a bit like on the standing stone at the circle of Knocknakilla. To top it all off the row seems to be lining up with a hill off in the distance, Im not sure exactly which one but i think it could be Douce Mountain.
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This is right beside the road a little south from Macroom. There are two stones remaining however the remains of three more may be in the ditch behind them. The two remaining stones look out to the hills in the distance.
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This stone circle is a couple of miles from Macroom to the north side of the River Lee reservior out on a bit of a penisula. I recall parking at an old churchyard and walking west for about 400m. Then heading through a few fields linking up with a farmtrack which it is right beside.
Unfortunately it was fairly overgrown with high grass and the resulting pictures werent great. According to Jack Roberts the orientation of the circle is 200°.
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For some strange reason this wedge tomb is listed on the old Michelin maps, up there with the likes of Newgrange and the Rock of Cashel.
The tomb is in the vicinity of the beautiful Gougane Barra lake (my brother in law got married at the church here so I nipped out to take some pics the night before the wedding).
It is a place that is well worth a visit for non megalithic reasons. The lake was an early christain hermitage spot (a bit like Glendalough) and I understand there are legends of the lake having a monster in it.
Regarding the wedge tomb, there are two shown on the map but I only could find one. I think the second one might be destroyed as I found the remains of what might have been.
Its a fine big tomb and is in good condition. Didnt have much time to study it but i think it is about 4m long by about 2m wide.
http://www.gouganebarra.com/
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I had wondered about maybe trying to get over to this one from the other stone circle however from the terrain it looked very difficult and so I drove up the forestry road to within about 300m of it. I had the coordinates in my handheld gps and even with the 8 digits coordinates I still nearly didnt find this. I just couldnt fathom that the stone circle would be in the evergreen trees.
See Gordons pictures for great directions on how to find this site, I shall have to start following them soon!
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This circle is at the end of a long lane. There is a sign-post to the circle so that is always a good sign regarding access as you have to walk practically through the yard of a farm to get onto the lane. Its a long walk down, maybe 1.5km but the lane is in good condition and the site itself is well worth the walk.
The circle itself is in great condition and I assume all the stones are there and in there original positions. It is noted on Jack Roberts map as having an orientation to the Feb / Nov Cross Quarter days.
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These standing stones are marked as a stone row and a single standing stone on the OS map on the lane down to the Carrigagulla stone circle. It seems likely that they made up the one monument at some stage. From Tom Fourwinds site he spoke to the farmer while visiting and the farmer said "that he can remember three standing in the field when he was young, but they fell. One of the gate post stones was dug up by him a few years ago some distance from the others. Was it once a very long row of five or six stones?"
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