Gortahurk is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.1519°, -7.5983°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Gortahurk

Gortahurk in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Gortahurk is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

From the Wikipedia article

Gortahurk (from Irish Gort an Choirce, meaning 'field of the oats'), is a townland in the civil parish of Tomregan, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It was also part of the barony of Knockninny.

Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.

Background

History

The townland formed part of the ballybethagh of Calvagh in medieval times. As it was a border townland the ownership was contested between the McGovern and Maguire clans. At the time of the 1609 Ulster Plantation the townland was overlooked and does not appear on the Plantation Baronial maps. The map for Knockninny barony stops on the east bank of the stream entering the Woodford river between the townlands of Derryhooly and Corry townlands, while the Tullyhaw barony map stops where the Irish border is now, thus omitting that part of Tomregan parish which lies in County Fermanagh. The mapping of Fermanagh and Cavan only took about 10 days each, which was insufficient time to make a proper…

Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.