Drombeg Stone Circle, also known as the Druid’s Altar, holds a commanding position on a rocky outcrop overlooking the sea near Glandore, County Cork. The circle originally consisted of seventeen stones, two are missing and one has fallen. The diameter of the circle across its NE-SW axis is nine metres. The stones vary in size ranging from 50cm to 2m in height and 1m to 2m in width. The largest stone is decorated with two shallow cup-marks one of which is surrounded by an oval carving. During excavations five pits were discovered below a compacted gravel floor, these contained flint, scrapers, and fragments of shale. In the centre of the circle an inverted pot was found, it contained the cremated remains of a young adolescent wrapped in thick cloth; alongside the pot smashed shards and evidence of charcoal from the fire were discovered. The inhumation was originally dated to 140 BC but this has subsequently been amended twice, initially to around 600BC and in 1998 to 1124-794BC. To the south of the stone circle stands a hut site and also a fulacht fiadh, carbon dating of remnants from the fulacht fiadh date to the first century AD which show the site at Drombeg is multi-period and was a place of significance for a thousands of years.

GPS: 51.56455, -9.08707