Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Gort Na Scairte, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort Na Scairte
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.59944, -8.91967
- SMR number
- CO135-085001-
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 top of a ridge with commanding view in all directions. L-shaped graveyard shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) extended to S forming a rectangular graveyard enclosed by stone wall. Lines of low, uninscribed gravemarkers with some headstones (earliest dating to 1790s); still in use. Contains ruins of church (CO135-085003-) and souterrain (CO135-085002-).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.