Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gortnabarnan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnabarnan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50512, -8.25304
- SMR number
- TS058-033001-
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
On top of a gently sloping hillock, in the SW quadrant of a ringfort (TS058-033----), in gently undulating pasture. According to local tradition, this was the location of a mass-rock. The mass-rock consists of a natural flat-topped outcrop (dims. 3.8m NW-SE; 1.8m NE-SW; H 0.8m) that appears to be of heavily eroded limestone. The surface is uneven and partially covered with moss and grass.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.