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Home > Kealkil Stone Circle, Standing Stones and Cairn, Co. Cork. Everyone who has been to this place will describe to you in animated terms how perfect the space, location and placement of stones is here high above the small village of Kealkil. Overlooking Bantry Bay to the west and the lowlands and mountains that make West Cork famous, its best to come on a fine day so you can appreciate the view without becoming part of it, the winds here are so strong! The two tall stones make even the tallest person tiny in comparison though the small stone circle (one of Irelands smallest) can soothe any feelings of being dominated! Well worth even a long journey to visit. Click here to go to Kealkil
Home > Kealkil Stone Circle, Standing Stones and Cairn, Co. Cork. A small complex featuring a small five stone circle (left), two massive standing stones and a small radial cairn. The views here are amazing also. Click here to view
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Home > A view of the cairn and its relationship to the standing stones. The whole effect of the complex is more than just the consituent parts and you can imagine this as a centre for important ritual and community gatherings.
Home > In this picture you can see the relationship between the ring and the standing stones, they are set at a tangent to the circle facing west in a line, the circle itself has its portal looking north west. The two stones to the very left of the circle here are the portals and the small stone on the very right is the axial.
Home > Looking north frombehind the cairn, the circle is to the left and above the standing stones.
Home > A closer view of the standing stones and the cairn. note the upright stones in the cairn.
Home > Kealkil in Co. Cork comprises of a small five stone circle, two large standing stones (one eight feet tall, the other almost sixteen feet) and a cairn of stones with a 'kerb' of stones set upright in a radial pattern around the inside. The elevated position on a mountain ridge gives extensive views across Bantry Bay to the west and miles of hills and valleys in every other direction except south, where the mountain rises above the complex.
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