Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle - multiple-stone
Gort An Acra, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort An Acra
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circle (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.92731, -9.15708
- SMR number
- CO069-015----
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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 moorland, in wide shallow saddle between two hills, 1.5m W of confluence of Douglas and Sullane Rivers. Circle incomplete; may have consisted of thirteen stones. Seven erect stones and five prostrate slabs survive, including axial stone and entrance stones. Orthostats are 0.6m to 1.4m L,0.2m to 0.9m T and 0.5m to 0.9m H. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 7.5m. (O Nualláin 1984a, 14, no. 9)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.