Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - five-stone
Gort Na Tiobratan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort Na Tiobratan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Galláin (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.92973, -9.17331
- SMR number
- CO058-029----
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
In boggy ground, near top of hill. Circle incomplete; N entrance stone is missing. Orthostats are 0.7m to 0.8m L, 0.45m to 0.5m T and 0.6m to 0.8m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned E-W, is c. 2.3m. Anomalous group of standing stones (CO058-030---) 90m to NE. (O Nualláin 1984a, 34, no. 61)
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.