Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Gortavoher West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortavoher West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42597, -8.15916
- SMR number
- TS074-001001-
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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 flat, wet, rushy terrain at the base of a S-facing slope of a rise known locally as 'the Nob', at the base of Slievenamuck. A possible ecclesiastical enclosure only the NE quadrant (dims. 28m N-S; 25m E-W) of which is visible at ground level. It is defined by scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.56m) and an external fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.45m). The enclosure is transected by an E-W field boundary. S of the field boundary the field is known as 'The Kill' and according to Weir (1980, 214) bones where dug up here during ploughing. The S portion of this field slopes to the S, possibly indicating the extent of the former enclosure. A bullaun stone (TS074-001----) lies immediately N of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.