Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gort An Imill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort An Imill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91823, -9.15503
- SMR number
- CO069-088----
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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 rough marshy grazing surrounded by trees and bushes, on a level area to the S of the Douglas River. A large roughly rectangular boulder (2.8m E-W; 2.65m N-S; H 1.4m), which is partially obscured by moss and overgrowth, was used as a mass-rock during penal times. The boulder has an upsloping edge along its S side and a flat area along its N side. The surrounding area is in known locally as 'Móinteáin an Aifrinn'.
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
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.