Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Gortyvahane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortyvahane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.54399, -8.24312
- SMR number
- LI025-021----
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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 improved pasture abutting a stream forming the townland boundary with Ooolahills East on it SW side. The site has good views to NW to NE and reasonable views in other directions. Enclosure (LI025-019----) located 200m to WSW and enclosure (LI025-024----) located 280m to E. The site is depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork or platform (ext. dims. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area of scrub woodland on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 1999 when the site could not be surveyed due to dense cover of rushes and other scrub vegetation hampering surface inspection. The outline of a scrub covered monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 21 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.