Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gortnahalla, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnahalla
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71520, -8.00000
- SMR number
- TN040-054----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On flat poorly drained grassland with course of old silted up stream or drain immediately to S running E-W into an old pond now dried up to W. Ringfort (TN040-) located 80m to N. A grass-covered, horseshoe-shaped mound (dims. 14.8m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.5m) of burnt material, with a W-facing opening (Wth 4m). Rushy waterlogged depression (dims. 3m N-S x 5.5m E-W; D 0.3m) in W face of horseshoe-shaped mound marks possible location of trough.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.