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Rosdoagh Stone Circle
Native name
Irish: [Liagchiorcal Ros Dumhach] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
Druid's Circle
Rosdoagh Court Tomb/Cairn
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Type court cairn
Location Rosdoagh, Rossport,
County Mayo, Ireland
Built c. 4000–2500 BC
National Monument of Ireland
Official name: Rosdoagh Stone Circle
Reference no. 386

Rosdoagh Stone Circle is a court cairn and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland.

Location

Rosdoagh Stone Circle is located 700 m (2,300 ft) southwest of Rossport, near the mouth of the Glenamoy River.

History

The court cairn was built in the Neolithic Age. It was originally recorded as a "druid's circle" as it appears to the casual observer to be two concentric rings, however it is today recognised as a court cairn.

Description

Rosdoagh is a large court cairn, with a near-circular kerb of 33 stones.

It once supported a cairn about 18 m (59 ft) in diameter, with sixteen stones surviving from a large central court, with a diameter of about 9 m (30 ft). A short gallery, orientated roughly SSE-NNW, opens to the court at the SSE.

An oval bank surrounds the whole court cairn, about 27 m × 20 m (30 yd × 22 yd).

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