Corick

{{Short description|Irish megalithic archaeological site}}

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File:Stone circle, Corick.jpg

File:Stone row, Corick.jpg

Corick ({{etymology|ga|Comhrac|confluence}}Toner, Gregory: Place-Names of Northern Ireland, Volume Five, County Derry I, The Moyola Valley, page 16. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University Belfast, 1996. {{ISBN|0-85389-613-5}}) is a megalithic site and townland in the civil parish of Ballynascreen, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.{{cite web | title=Corick; Ballynascreen; Magherafelt | work=Peatlands NI | url=http://www.peatlandsni.gov.uk/archaeology/stone_circles_details/circle_8.htm | access-date=2007-12-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320225027/http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/biodiversity/habitats-2/peatlands.htm | archive-date=2012-03-20 | url-status=dead }} It includes a stone circle and a stone row. The Corick stone circles and alignments are located 2 km north east of Ballybriest court-tomb, 400 metres south of Corick clachan, near a stream.{{cite web | title=Corick | work= Gazetteer of Irish Prehistoric Monuments - County Londonderry | url=http://www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/derry.htm | access-date=2007-12-01}} The stone alignments and circle are Scheduled Historic Monuments in Corick at grid reference: Area of H780 896.{{cite web|title=Corick |work=Environment and Heritage Service - Scheduled Historic Monuments |url=http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/scheduled_monuments1to31mar07.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20081105170858/http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/scheduled_monuments1to31mar07.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-11-05 |access-date=2007-12-01 }}