Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Gortyogan, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortyogan
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91186, -8.29564
- SMR number
- TN014-074----
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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
Situated off the crest of a hill on a NE-facing slope. A low, roughly circular mound (dims. 9.5m N-S; 11.4m E-W; H 0.2-0.56m) with no enclosing element. The interior slopes slightly to the NE and has been used as a dump for field stones and there is a circle of whitethorn bushes growing around the edge of the site. Known locally as a fort.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.