Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortageen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortageen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09270, -9.05190
- SMR number
- CO039-018003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture. Subcircular slightly raised area (c. 46m N-S; c. 46m E-W) defined by low grass-covered bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), truncated by field fence to S. According to local information, when field ploughed, concentration of slate-like stones visible on line of bank. Noted by Bowman (1934, 304) as raised area (diam. 55yd) 'about 2 feet higher than field level'. Burial ground (14101) and site of church at centre. Cropmark of fosse of roughly square enclosure (c. 50m E-W; c. 50m N-S) visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W394; July 1975) surrounding church and graveyard.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.