Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Hoop'S-Lot, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hoop'S-Lot
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49717, -7.98164
- SMR number
- TS060-097014-
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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
On the E bank of the River Suir, where there is an island in the middle of the river, at the W end of the village of Golden. Barry (1977, 147) suggested that there was an earlier 12th-14th century stone castle at the location of the tower house (TS060-097001-) on the island. However, archaeological excavations in 2003 and 2004 revealed the corner of a substantial 13th/14th building 100m to the E of the tower house, immediately S of the bridge (Moran 2006, 466-7; 2007, 410). This buildings strategic location and the thickness of its mortared walls suggest that this may be an early castle (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 July 2014
References
Moran, J. 2006 Hoops' Lot, Golden: Urban medieval/post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 466-7. Bray. Wordwell.
Moran, J. 2007 Hoop's Lot, Golden: Urban medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 410. Bray. Wordwell.
Barry, T.B. 1977 Medieval moated sites of south-eastern Ireland. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 35. Oxford.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.