Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Gortnacowly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacowly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.73152, -9.33103
- SMR number
- CO106-105----
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
On the N side of a road in the valley of the Mealagh River. Two small Greek crosses with expanded terminals are visible on an exposed section of smooth bedrock (4.6m E-W; 1.15m N-S) at the base of a roadside boundary. Much of the remainder of the exposed bedrock is covered with shallow, mainly linear, grooves and small rounded depressions forming no discernible pattern.
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
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.