Knocks N

Nearest town:
Rosscarbery (9km S)
OS reference:
W2993445647
OS sheets:
86, 89
Latitude:
51° 39' 32.74 N
Longitude:
9° 0' 45.53 W
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Images

Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by Nucleus

Unfortunately the stinging nettles cover most of the stones
Visited June 2009

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 06/2009
Nucleus
Nucleus Oct 31, 2017
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by Ebor

Knocks North panorama

Image credit: www.facebook.com/EborBensonPhotography/
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Ebor Dec 22, 2016
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The axial stone and the next circle stone to the north.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Apr 10, 2009
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

Looking southeast across the circle.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk Apr 10, 2009
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The circle as viewed from the north.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 15, 2008
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

A closer view of the portals, seen side-on and from the north. Two close twins to the remaining portal at Knocks South – their enhanced width transforms the entranceway into a passage, similar in effect to the double-portalling at Carrigagrenane SW.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 15, 2008
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The low axial stone, viewed from outside the circle, with a heavily spilt stain of quartz on its table top.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 15, 2008
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The flat top of the axial stone viewed from inside the circle at it’s right hand side.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 15, 2008
Image of Knocks N (Stone Circle) by gjrk

The tip of a quartz boulder lying just slightly south of the axis. There’s so many field stones and craters inside here that it’s difficult to assume any relationship to the circle.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
gjrk
gjrk May 15, 2008

Articles

Knocks N

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gjrk May 17, 2008

Pointing a touch further north than Bohonagh, in terms of declination, with a measurement of 1.22 degrees*, Knocks North provides a cruder alignment to the equinoxes, further hindered by the tree growth on the horizon. On the other hand the local historian that has witnessed it mentioned the sparkling of the falling sun on the big splash of quartz on the axial stone. Worth a visit, I think.

Permission can be obtained from the farm to the south, on the left hand side of the road.

* Patrick and Freeman, ‘Revised Surveys of Cork-Kerry Stone Circles’, Archaeoastronomy, no.5 (JHA, xiv (1983)); S51: Knocks/A.

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Knocks North ... lovely 11
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FourWinds
May 2008

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