Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gortnaclohy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaclohy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.36238, -9.06889
- SMR number
- LI044-136----
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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 steeply sloping ground on the E slopes of Gortnaclohy Mountain, now covered with a large modern coniferous plantation. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Visited by the ASI in 1997 when described as a concrete wall surmounted by a cross-shrine with concrete altar in front of shrine. No surface remains of the mass rock were recorded. The area is visible on Google Earth orthoimages to the immediate E of a local road.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.