Killinga

Nearest town:
Leap (4km SSE)
OS reference:
W2083240698
OS sheets:
85, 89
Latitude:
51° 36' 48.28 N
Longitude:
9° 8' 34.98 W
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Image of Killinga (Cup Marked Stone) by gjrk

Carrigfadda dominates the skyline to the northeast.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
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gjrk Apr 3, 2009
Image of Killinga (Cup Marked Stone) by gjrk

The eastern horizon; from Carrigfadda to the peak of Corran hill.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
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gjrk Apr 3, 2009
Image of Killinga (Cup Marked Stone) by gjrk

The flat top of the upright pillar.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
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gjrk Mar 20, 2009
Image of Killinga (Cup Marked Stone) by gjrk

Looking Northeast, along the axis line of the upright pillar, towards Carrigfadda. Cloud-cover has obscured the mountain.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
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gjrk Mar 20, 2009
Image of Killinga (Cup Marked Stone) by gjrk

Looking Southeast along the length of the prostrate stone. The cup marks, judging by Roberts’ sketch, should be somewhere under the bush at the rear.

Image credit: Gordon Kingston
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gjrk Mar 20, 2009

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Killinga

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gjrk Mar 23, 2009

A low, upright pillar, jutting from the rushes and bushes. Then, behind this growing screen, a vast recumbent slab; 2.7m long, 2m wide and 1.45m thick*.

Recorded in the Archaeological Inventory, following local tradition, as a mass rock, it may eventually provide an interesting comparison to a similarly classed and cup-marked boulder at Coorleigh South. Due to the heavy scrub on the south-eastern side of the stone, Jack Roberts’ sketch remains the only visual record of the marks or ‘circular depressions’**.

The fallen part of a NE-SW stone pair, if position and local morphology (Knockatlowig, Knockawaddra W) are taken into account.

*Archaeological Inventory of Cork, 1992; No.3271, 354.
**Roberts, J., ‘Exploring West Cork’, 1988; Ch.2, No.12, 53.

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