Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Gortloughra, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortloughra
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77925, -9.27074
- SMR number
- CO092-064----
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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 bog, on a N-facing slope overlooking the valleys of the Gortloughra and Owvane Rivers. A network of relict stone field boundaries (T 0.6m; H 0.4m) occur along the hillside in this roughly rectangular area (c. 350m E-W; c. 150m N-S). In general the walls are curvilinear and discontinuous. The walls are visible in the areas of cutaway bog and elsewhere, in uncut bog, where they protrude intermittently above the surface. An enclosure (CO092-062001-) and a hut site (CO092-062002-) are within the E half of the field boundary network.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.