Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Tinnakilly (loughkeen Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnakilly (loughkeen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07529, -7.92867
- SMR number
- TN005-036002-
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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
This record was listed in the non-statutory 'Sites and Monuments Record' (issued 1992) as 'Battlefield'. The source of the record is an entry in the OS Name Book (c. 1840) which recounts that 'Aughnagan . . . (ford of the heads) . . . an ancient ford on the Brosna no longer existing . . . Tradition says that a battle was fought here by a body of men belonging to Cromwell against another body belonging to one of the O’Carrolls of the …(?) and in cutting a canal there several human bones found adjacent.' There is no historical reference to a battle having been fought here and it is not an infrequent occurrence for the discovery of human bones to be interpreted as the location of a battle. Pending further evidence it cannot be accepted as indicative of the site of a battlefield.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 11 August 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.