Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- TS077-046011-
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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) between April and May 1982. Sub-rectangular enclosure (dims. 11m N-S; 4.8m E-W) defined by a steep-sided fosse (top Wth 1.1m; base Wth 0.65m; D 0.45m)(Doody 1987, 13). The fosse was filled with sandy silt with charcoal flecks throughout (ibid.). This enclosure was superimposed on a ditch barrow (TS077-046004-) and timber structure (TS077-046010-)(ibid.). A saddle quern was found in the fosse fill (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.