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
- 51.78417, -9.24548
- SMR number
- CO093-087----
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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
On a platform in rough hill grazing, on bog at the head of Kealkill valley on the W-facing slopes of Shehy Beg with views W to Bantry Bay. A D-shaped area (5m NW-SE), with the straight side at SE (L 4.6m) is defined by a roughly built collapsing drystone wall (T 0.8m; H up to 1.1m). Rubble is scattered in the interior and along both sides of the enclosing element. The entrance (Wth c. 0.8m) is at W. There is a hut site (CO093-086----) c. 20m to the S.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.