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Burial ground

Murgasty, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Murgasty, 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
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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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

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.

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