| Keadeen - Standing Stone |
I actually found this site after I went to the nearby standing stone (see Keadeen (County Wicklow)), which turns out to be an outlier to this previously unrecorded stone circle.
There are about 7 of a probable 13 stones still standing, including two radial entrance stones. A projected line thourgh these entrance stones from the centre of the circle passes through the standing stone.
I don't think that there can be any dispute that this is a stone circle, as it is just 1km or so from Boleycarrigeen (County Wicklow), which would be visible from here across the valley it it wasn't in the middle of a modern pine plantation.
On the north side of this circle, which is just 5m in diameter, there are traces of a bank, which would make it similar in design to Boleycarrigeen.
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The Wicklow Archaeological Inventory does state that the standing stone (see Keadeen (County Wicklow)) is in an enclosure within which there is at least one hut site. They could mean this structure, but if they do then I think they've got it wrong!
This is no hut site and the alignement of the entrance with the standing stone does go someway to indicating that it is more than a hut. Perhaps the whole site needs more investigation, especially as the Inventory makes no mention of the cairns just down the hill (see Keadeen (County Wicklow)).
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Bohonagh (Co. Cork) |  Knocknakilla (Co. Cork) |  Knocks S (Co. Cork) |
 Bauraglanna (Co. Tipperary) |  Ballynoe (Co. Down) |  Bocan (Co. Donegal) |
