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Hut site

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, 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
52.35951, -8.07250
SMR number
TS080-018----

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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

Situated 30m NE of a hut site (TS080-017----) on the E edge of a raised piece of land separating two converging mountain streams. Glennyreea River immediately to N which forms townland boundary with Cloheenafishoge. Listed as Boolakennedy 2 (Costello 2016, 98; Costello 2016, 97, 310) and described as a rectangular hut site (ext. dims. 5.4m x 3.5m; int. dims. 3.9m x 1.7m) aligned NE-SW constructed with low stone-built walls (H 0.2-0.8m; Wth 0.8m), partly covered by sods and best-preserved at NE. The placename ‘Glennyreea’ is an anglicisation of Gleann Áirí, which translates as Valley of the Summer Milking-Place (Costello 2016, 203; Costello 2020, 114).

See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello

Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello

Date of upload: 26 August 2020

References

Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.

Costello, E. 2016 Seasonal settlement and the interpretation of upland archaeology in the Galtee Mountains, Ireland. Landscape History 37(1), 87-98.

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 Feirmeoirí faoi cheilt: dul chun cinn agus dúshláin sa taighde faoi ghnás an bhuailteachais. Béaloideas 84, 192-211.

Nearby in the register

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

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