Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Ballyveelish North, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveelish North
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39343, -7.73720
- SMR number
- TS077-046010-
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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
Excavated by Doody (1987, 10-21; 1988, 176-80) between April and May 1982. Within a ditch barrow (TS077-046004-) and surrounding a cist (TS077-046003-) were the remains of a circular timber structure (dims. 5.1m N-S; 7m E-W), indicated by post-holes, and a possible D-shaped porch or entrance area (dims. 5m N-S; 2.4m E-W), indicated by curving foundation trenches with an entrance (Wth 1m) facing NE (ibid. 178-9). The excavator suggests that this structure was specifically built for a ceremonial function associated with the interment of the cremated remains, after which the building was deliberately burnt, as evidenced by the large quantity of charcoal and ash in the foundation trenches and adjacent fosse of the ring-ditch (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Doody, M. 1988 An Early Bronze Age burial at Ballyveelish, Co. Tipperary. Tipperary Historical Journal, 176-80.
Doody, M.G. 1987 Early Bronze Age burials, Ballyveelish 3, Co. Tipperary. In R.M. Cleary et al. (eds), Excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2), 10-21. University College, Cork.
Doody, M. 1997 Bronze Age settlements in Co. Tipperary: fifteen years of research. Tipperary Historical Journal, 96-106.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.