Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Gortatanavally, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortatanavally
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Ground (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.81566, -9.11627
- SMR number
- CO081-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Shown as hachured subcircular area on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated as subcircular field on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Oval area (36m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by stone bank (H 1.4m) SE->NW; remainder of bank levelled during removal of surrounding fields c. 1985. Area (22m E-W; 14m N-S) on S side of interior remains undisturbed, with many uninscribed grave markers.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.