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Structure

Boolakennedy (Shanrahan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Structure, Boolakennedy (Shanrahan Par.), 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
Boolakennedy (Shanrahan Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.36312, -8.07905
SMR number
TS080-012----

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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

On an ESE-facing hill slope in the Galtee Mountains. Within a deliberately constructed sheltered hollow (int. dims. 9.1m NE-SW; 4.6m NW-SE) there is long, rectangular stone built structure (dims. 7.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE at centre, tapering to 2.35m at the NE end and 1.9m at the SW end), aligned NNE-SSW, with dry-stone boulder walls (Wth 0.8m; H . The interior appears to be sod/turf filled and is covered in heather. The SW side of the hollow is cut into the hill slope creating a scarp (H 1-1.1m), elsewhere it is enclosed by a bank (Wth at crest 1.1-1.65m; overall Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1-1.2m). The internal structure is not visible outside the hollow. The function of this structure is unknown but it may be related to potato storage. A large field (dims. c, 220m NW-SE; c. 160m NE-SW) is indicated on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map c. 20m S of this structure. It appears to have been an area of cultivation in otherwise rough grazing on the mountain. On Digitalglobe imagery cultivation ridges are visible in this field. In the N quadrant of this field a house is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and within this quadrant two houses (TS080-013----; TS080-014----) have been identified on the ground, both c. 50m SE of the rectangular structure.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 29 April 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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