Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortloughra, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortloughra
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77552, -9.27666
- SMR number
- CO092-061001-
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
In rough hill grazing on a bog-covered terrace, on a N-facing slope overlooking the valleys of the Gortloughra and Owvane Rivers. A roughly circular area (8m E-W; 7m N-S) is defined by the partially collapsed lower courses of a roughly built drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.45m), which protrudes above the surface of the shallow bog. Many of the stones are leaning against each other and are set at right angles to the line of the wall. A low mainly sod-covered mound (H 0.35m) of stones of varying sizes occupies most of the interior. Its function is unclear. A hut site (CO092-061002-) abuts the enclosure at W.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.