Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Gort An Acra, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort An Acra
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dolmen (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.92298, -9.15727
- SMR number
- CO069-014----
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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 flat shoulder of S-facing slope overlooking valley of River Douglas, a tributary of Sullane River. Comprises gallery (L 3.2m; Wth c. 1.2m) aligned E-W, represented by four N sidestones, two surviving S sidestones and backstone at E end; W end closed by low sill-like stone. Three parallel stones at NW corner of monument may be multiple outer walling. Single outer-wall stone outside E end of gallery. Two displaced roofstones lie across S gallery side. No indications of surrounding mound. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 16, Co. 21)
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
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.