Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Gortahumma, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortahumma
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73926, -8.12925
- SMR number
- TN033-051----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on a S-facing slope of poorly drained ground in an upland region surrounded by modern coniferous plantation. A low poorly preserved irregular-shaped mound (Dims. 5m N-S; H 0.5m) enclosed by an inner fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.1m) visible at N only. The bank is intersected at N by a townland boundary extending NE-SW.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.