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Kealkill stone circle
51.7450° N, -9.3710° E
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Kealkill stone circle is a Bronze Age axial five-stone circle located just outside the village of Kealkill, County Cork in southwest Ireland. When it was excavated in 1938 it was thought the crucial axial stone indicated an alignment to the north, contrary to the general alignment of such stone circles to the southwest. However, later archaeologists have thought it is the comparatively insignificant stone to the southwest that is the axial stone. There are two associated standing stones nearby, one of which had fallen and was re-erected in 1938.
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Terminology coined
1909
Excavation and re‑erection
1938
Ó Nualláin classification
1975
Axial stone re‑identification
1984
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