Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Gortnahoo, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnahoo
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- R.C. Church, Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.67585, -7.60304
- SMR number
- TS043-028----
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
In the centre of Gortnahoo village on a slight rise of ground with good views in all directions. A 19th century cruciform-plan church is situated in the NW quadrant of a small square-shaped graveyard (dims. NE-SW 37m; SE-NW 38m), with no headstone pre-1800 visible in the graveyard. The earliest headstones are located immediately SE of the S wall of the church, elsewhere the headstones date from the 1900s. It is depicted as an RC chapel on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. According to Lewis (1837, 231) human bones were discovered when the foundations of the existing chapel were being dug. These were locally believed to belong to those who died in a battle at Ballysloe between the Kings of Leinster and Munster.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.