Stone Circle in Gort An Imill, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In shallow depression in boggy mountain land, on S side of Douglas Rivervalley. Circle consists of nine stones, 0.5m to 1.1m L, 0.3m to 0.4m T and 0.4 to 0.9m H. Stones decrease in height from entrance to axial stone. Internal measurement along main axis, aligned NNE-SSW, is 7.5m. Internal quartz block (H 0.2m; 0.55m x 0.4m), with quartz pieces possibly broken from it, stands just E of main axis. (O Nualláin 1984a, 14, no. 10) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO069-013

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