Has anyone been to this circle lately?

Oughtihery E 1

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bawn79 Sep 22, 2011 16:48:40

I tried visiting this stone circle during the summer and unless the OS map is wrong / its listed as in the wrong area I was unable to find it. Its marked right beside a road and so I feel reasonably confident that I would have found it.
Im worried that perhaps this has been destroyed?

Megalithics Sep 22, 2011 19:55:06

Replying to bawn79

Not recently, but we did visit in 1998 and as you say it was very close to the road, but we had trouble finding it because of the sunken roadway/high hedges.

We're a little worried as the single 2008 photo on MA shows only four stones, there were five when we visited:-

http://www.megalithics.com/ireland/oughtse/keelmain.htm

We were using GPS for the first time and remember it didn't seem to be where Burl's map ref stated, unfortunately we didn't take a GPS fix. Our Cork Archaeological Inventory gives W 4154 8011 for this circle.

Hope it's all still there!

Maggie & Keith