Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gorteen (ballybrit By., Gorteen Ed), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (ballybrit By., Gorteen Ed)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99359, -7.71073
- SMR number
- OF043-051----
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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
Present remains consist of a semi-circular shaped platform (diam. 50m E-W) defined by a slight scarp at S and by a public road at N. Possible house platform of post-1700 AD date. Not depicted as an antiquity on the current edition of the OS 6-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.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.