Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mine
Garrykennedy, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrykennedy
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.90423, -8.35637
- SMR number
- TN013-018----
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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
Mine complex identified, post inventory fieldwork, by Dr. William O'Brien, NUI, Galway (pers. comm. 26.6.1998). Site is not indicated on the 1st (1840) or 2nd (1901-5) ed. OS 6-inch map. The mine is referred to by Kinahan as 'Garrykennedy was a very ancient mine, stone and wood implements, &c., having been found in the "Old Men's Workings". Dr. O'Brien visited the site in January 1996 and found a number of extant mine workings of unknown age still surviving.
Reference:
Kinahen, G.H. (1886) 'Irish metal mining', Royal Dublin Society Scientific Proceedings 5, 219.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.