Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ardmayle, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmayle
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS052-076----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Long (1897, 92) refers to the motte at Ardmayle (TS052-034004-) and Knockgraffon (TS075-019001-) and states that 'One of them had in recent years a narrow escape from a passing railway. I have been informed on good authority that some fifty years ago certain workmen, while tilling the field about this latter, came on a subterranean passage in which they found what they described as two old swords and an old bucket, which, of course, they treated as rubbish'. As Ardmayle is closest to a railway line it would appear that this underground passage, possibly a souterrain, was found close to the motte at Ardmayle.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 28 January 2013
References
Long, R.H. Rev. 1897 Earliest monuments in Cashel and Emly. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society, 3, 92-4.