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Excavation - miscellaneous

Cashel, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Cashel, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cashel
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51673, -7.88570
SMR number
TS061-025051-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological excavations in 1997 revealed a stone wall (L 7m; Wth 1.6m; surviving H 0.3m), two parallel post rows (L 4.75m), a linear trench (L 5.3m; Wth 0.25-0.8m; D 0.25-0.6m) and a circular pit (diam. 1.13m; D 0.56m) (O'Donovan 2001, 35-7). The wall, orientated NW-SE has been interpreted as a possible boundary wall between Friar Street and the property along its E side (O'Donovan 2001, 37). The linear trench and two parallel post rows are also interpreted as possible property boundaries orientated NE-SW, the latter signifying a narrowing of the street (ibid. 37-8).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 05 August 2014

References

O'Donovan, E. 2004 Excavations at Friar Street, Cashel: A story of urban settlement AD 1200-1800. Tipperary Historical Journal, 3-90.

O'Donovan, E. 2000 Friar Street, Cashel: Medieval urban. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 193. Bray. Wordwell.

O'Donovan, E. et al. 2001 Excavations at Friar Street, Cashel: An archaeological history of urban settlement. Unpublished excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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