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Stone circle - multiple-stone

Gort An Imill, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone circle - multiple-stone, Gort An Imill, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gort An Imill
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Stone Circle (1940)
Coordinates
51.91373, -9.15061
SMR number
CO069-013----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In shallow depression in boggy mountain land, on S side of Douglas Rivervalley. Circle consists of nine stones, 0.5m to 1.1m L, 0.3m to 0.4m T and 0.4 to 0.9m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 7.5m. Internal quartz block (H 0.2m; 0.55m x 0.4m), with quartz pieces possibly broken from it, stands just E of main axis. (O Nualláin 1984a, 14, no. 10)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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