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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Gortavoher West, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Gortavoher West, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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