Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Fethard, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fethard
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46662, -7.69351
- SMR number
- TS070-040043-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Limited excavation of the town wall immediately S of the Barrack St gate produced pottery of late 13th/early 14th century which appears to be contemporary with the town wall (Moran 1995, 81). This excavation also exposed pre-wall features, including two opposite rows of three stakeholes, the stakeholes being c. 0.2-0.3m apart and the rows being c. 0.4-0.5m apart, running at a right angle (E-W) to the town wall (ibid.). Whether the stakeholes continued beyond the limit of the excavation was not established but their arrangement suggests they were part of a structure.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Moran, J. 1995 Fethard: medieval town wall. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 81. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.