Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Moneynaboola, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneynaboola
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39154, -8.19949
- SMR number
- TS073-040----
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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
Listed as Moneynaboola (Costello 2016, 96; Costello 2016, 302). A roughly rectangular drystone-walled hut (ext. dims. 6.9m x 5m; int. dims. 3.9m x 3.1m) aligned NW-SE, with entrance (Wth 0.5m) in NE corner. Located on gently-sloping ground with mixed vegetative cover of heather, sedge and grass. Walls (avg. int. H 0.9m; Wth 0.9m) not coursed but stones well-set in peat packing. Circular-shaped structure annotated 'Sheepfold' on 25-inch OSi map, so it may have been re-used for this purpose. Indeed, rubble rebuild is evident along the tops of the walls. Originally, however, it is likely to have been a roofed booley hut (Costello 2016, 93).
See attached photograph courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 26 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2016 Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD. Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
Costello, E. 2016 Seasonal settlement and the interpretation of upland archaeology in the Galtee Mountains, Ireland. Landscape History 37(1), 87-98.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.