Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Murgasty, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murgasty
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47485, -8.16479
- SMR number
- TS067-131----
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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
An excavation was carried out in a green-field site, immediately N of the medieval church (TS067-004003-) and graveyard (TS067-004008-) in advance of the construction of a government office building (Cummins 2000, 203). During testing in 1997 five burials, orientated E-W, were excavated, though no dating evidence was retrieved (Hodkinson 1998, 180). In 1998, a further sixteen burials were excavated, aligned E-W or slightly NE-SW (Cummins 1998, 203). The total number of burials represent eleven adults, five juveniles and two neonates (ibid.). Associated pottery suggested a post-medieval date for the burials (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 June 2014
References
Cummins, T. 2000 Bohercrow Road, Murgasty, Tipperary: Burial-ground/kiln/hut site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 203 (No. 626). Bray. Wordwell.
Hodkinson, B. 1998 Bohercrow Road, Murgasty, Tipperary: Burials adjacent to church. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 180 (No. 561). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.