Rosdoagh Stone Circle | |
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Native name Irish: Liagchiorcal Ros Dumhach | |
Druid's Circle Rosdoagh Court Tomb/Cairn | |
Type | court cairn |
Location | Rosdoagh,
Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland |
Coordinates | 54°16′48″N 9°48′05″W / 54.280103°N 9.801466°W |
Built | c. 4000–2500 BC |
Official name | Rosdoagh Stone Circle |
Reference no. | 386 |
Rosdoagh Stone Circle is a court cairn and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. [1]
Rosdoagh Court Tomb is located 700 m (2,300 ft) southwest of Rossport, near the mouth of the Glenamoy River. [2] [3]
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. [4]
On older maps, it is labeled "Stone Circle", but the current classification is court tomb.
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). [5]