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Rock ArtSite Name: Gortavoher Alternative Name: The Blessed StoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Tipperary Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Tipperary
Map Ref: R883299
Discovery Map Number: D74
Latitude: 52.420918N Longitude: 8.172702W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Multiple-bullaun in Co. Tipperary
A fine, almost circular boulder of quartz conglomerate about 1 metre in diameter lies to the W of “Woodview Farmhouse”, which is 5.6 kms due S of Tipperary town, in a little modern enclosure on the S side of the by-road from Gransha to Galbally, running parallel with the Aherlow river. It has three large complete bullauns (hemispherical depressions) whose maximum diameter is 30 cms and whose maximum depth is 17.7 cms. Two other bullauns have been eroded by water, and a sixth is very shallow. There are 2 less perfect bullauns on the underside of the boulder, whose name might originally have meant ‘The Blessing-stone’.
~ 11 km WSW is the passage-tomb at Duntryleague, county Limerick.
Note: Photo © Anthony Weir
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