Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Coolagarranroe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolagarranroe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34565, -8.15786
- SMR number
- TS080-020----
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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
Rectangular hut site built into the SW slope of Knockeenatoung (601m) with hut site (TS080-019----) 430m to S. Listed by Costello (2016, 98; 2016, 312) as Coolagarranroe 2 and described as a rectangular-hut site (ext. dims. 6m x 3.75m; int. dims. 3.8m x 2.6m) aligned NE-SW with entrance in centre of S wall (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.45m; Wth 0.45m) facing downslope. This structure does not, however, have an internal division. The W wall of the building is difficult to define due to accumulated wall tumble either side of it. The N wall is built up against the slope. There is a probable trackway upslope of the building, a short section (1m) of which is revetted with stone. This leads to an area of former peat-cutting at higher altitude. Cultivation ridges are visible downslope to the SW of the building. They are bounded on the N by an earthen bank running cross-slope – presumably to prevent run-off from flooding the ridges (Costello 2020, 126).
See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 26 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2016 Seasonal settlement and the interpretation of upland archaeology in the Galtee Mountains, Ireland. Landscape History 37(1), 87-98.
Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.
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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
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