Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gormagh, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormagh
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30860, -7.50165
- SMR number
- OF009-020----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
No surface remains visible of 'fort' recorded in 1942. Described in 1942 as located at 'E[ast] end of a mound of clay and gravel, one of a number dotted on a limestone plain, near base of mound. The fosse is 5' [1.5m] wide, on upper sides (S & W) up to 3' [0.9m] deep outside, on lower nearly filled. The bank of clay rises quite gently from fosse 2-3' [0.6-0.9m] and from inside 1' [0.3m]. The centre slopes gently E and is very overgrown with thorn and other bushes; indeed the fort is quite concealed in a thorn brake. Fort circular, int. diam. 9yds. [8m]' (ITA Survey 1942, SMR File). Recorded in 1977 as a destroyed monument which was described as located in 'an area of low rises or outcrops. There is no trace of an antiquity there now' (SMR file 1977). Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2011
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