Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ardane, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardane
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39334, -8.09507
- SMR number
- TS074-028----
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
Listed as Ardane (Costello 2016, 98; Costello 2016, 311) and described as a poorly-preserved earthen-walled hut site (ext. dims. c. 4m x 4m), located on steep, rocky, bracken-covered, west-facing slope.
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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.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
- Cross-slab1 mi
- Cross1 mi
- Cross - High cross1 mi
- Cross1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.