Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Gortavehy West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortavehy West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04558, -9.15886
- SMR number
- CO038-047----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On N-facing slope, on E bank of stream. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 12m; Wth 8m; H 1m); opening faces W; terminals of mound truncated by pathway. Burnt material visible in section of stream bank. Levelled when revisited November 1993.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.