Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Gortroe (bantry By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortroe (bantry By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.72038, -9.39558
- SMR number
- CO105-062----
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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 pasture. A cairn (9m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.6m), which comprises small stones, lies immediately N of a standing stone (CO105-062001-). According to Myler (1998, 27), there is a large flat stone lying at the E end and another large uprooted stone, lying in pieces '2 yards from the south-east corner of the cairn'. Limestone outcropping rock defines the limit of the cairn material at the N.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.