Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Gortnakilly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnakilly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gortnakilly Grave Yd (Disused) (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.60974, -9.69508
- SMR number
- CO129-003----
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 grazing on N-facing slope. Marked 'Gortnakilly Grave Yd.' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Subrectangular area (15m E-W; 12.2m N-S) defined to E, S and W by marsh, to N by field fence. Most grave markers in E half of interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Mass-rock1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.