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Cappaboy Beg: Standing Stone Pair CO092-006

NGR 10943/06029 (IW 09438 ITM 60275 / 51.78800, -9.31315) [Googlemap]

Trajectories 1200BCE. Tap/Click pics for big ones.

Cappaboy Beg Standing Stone Pair, Cork, Ireland from SE.

Panoramic view with luni-solar trajectories c.1200BCE from Cappaboy Beg Standing Stone Pair, Cork, Ireland.

Cappaboy Beg Standing Stone Pair is about 7km north-east of Kealkill. On high ground, north of the R584. The eastern stone is a broken stub.

South is marked by a far intersect dip to the left of a near one [Pic].

North is on a slope [Pic].

North-eastern lunisticesLunistices are the most northerly and southerly moons of the month. The lunar equivalent of solstices - more. span a solstitial dip with the minor standstill marked by the hilltop.

Equinox sunrise is in a dip on a hilltop with the equinox / summer cross-quarter midpoint in the dip to its left.

South-eastern lunisticesLunistices are the most northerly and southerly moons of the month. The lunar equivalent of solstices - more. span a dip with winter solstice in the last dip of the hilltop and major standstill marked by the slope of the next hill.

South-western lunisticesLunistices are the most northerly and southerly moons of the month. The lunar equivalent of solstices - more. span a dip with the minor standstill marked by a hilltop.

Both these dips mark lunar sixteenths.

Westwards, winter cross-quarters are in a dip and maybe summer cross-quarters are too.

The north-west is currently obscured.

Four-poster monument CO092-008004 (unsurveyed) is c.120m down slope to E (70°)
Radial Stone Enclosure CO092-009001 (unsurveyed) is c.340m down slope to E (74°)
Gortloughra Stone Pair is across the valley, c.2km to SE (119°)
Cahermuckee Stone Pair is c.3.4km south-south-west (200°)

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References

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, record details. www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland
POWER, D. et al. 1992 Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 1: West Cork. Dublin: Stationary Office. p39, no.175.
Ó'NUALLÁIN, SEÁN 1988 Stone Rows in the South of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88c:179-256, p245, no.11.

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