Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.39327, -7.73720
- SMR number
- TS077-046012-
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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. A number of pits, postholes, charcoal spreads and linear features were found c. 17m S and SW of a ditch barrow (TS077-046004-) and one V-shaped fosse (L 10m; Wth 1.96m; D 0.85m) 8m NE of the ditch barrow (Doody 1987, 13-14). Two of the pits may have been refuse pits as one contained some pottery and flint and the other a homogeneous dark brown soil (ibid. 20). According to the excavator the post holes, directly associated with these pits, were very shallow and probably represent the remains of light timber posts, possibly for temporary shelter (ibid.). The features were not datable (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.