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Hut site

Moneynaboola, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Moneynaboola, 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
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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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

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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.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

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

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