Drombeg Stone Circle

Drombeg stone circle (also known as The Druid's Altar) is a small axial stone circle located 2.4 km east of Glandore, County Cork [1]. The stone circle originally consisted of seventeen closely spaced stones of which 13 survive [1]. The stones are made from local sandstone [1]. The circle spans 9.3 metres in diameter [1]. As an axial or "Cork–Kerry" stone circle, it contains two taller entrance stones placed opposite a recumbent axial stone [1]. Its axis is orientated south west towards the setting sun [1]. The most westerly stone is the long recumbent and has two egg shaped cup-marks, one with a ring around it [1]. An inverted pot, found in the centre of the circle, contained the cremated remains of a young adolescent wrapped with thick cloth [1].