Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
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
- 51.93040, -9.17276
- SMR number
- CO058-030----
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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 level patch of rough boggy ground, on N-facing slope. Depicted as pair of standing stones and named 'Galláin' on 1940 OS 6-inch map. Upright stone (H 1.4m; 0.65m x 0.55m) leans to SW; long axis NE-SW. Second stone (L 2.4m; 0.85m x 0.65m), 0.7m to SW, has fallen; lying NW-SE. Third stone (H 0.34m; 0.54m x 0.28m), protruding above ground 0.95m to S of upright stone, may have acted as packing stone to fallen slab; long axis N-S. Five-stone circle (CO058-029----) in same field c. 70m to SSW.
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
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.