Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gort Na Fuinseann, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort Na Fuinseann
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92094, -9.16435
- SMR number
- CO069-087----
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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
Within a small deciduous wood, on the E side of a road, on a S-facing slope. A shelf (L 7m; Wth 2.5m; H 1.6m) on the SE side of outcropping rock is known locally as 'Carrig an Aifrinn' and was used as a mass-rock during penal times. The shelf is orientated NE-SW and is covered with moss and debris.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.