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
- 52.34719, -8.14767
- SMR number
- TS080-021----
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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
Sub-circular stone hut located in cut-away bog on a high plateau Listed as Coolagarranroe 3 (Costello 2016) and described as a poorly preserved sub-circular hut site (ext. dims. 4.35 x 3.5m; int. dims. 1.7m x 1.4m) defined a low collapsed walls (avg. H 0.6m) (Costello 2016, 98; Costello 2016, 313). The walls are totally collapsed and not easily defined. A low point in the S wall may have been the entrance. None of the stones are dressed and there is no evidence of coursing whatsoever. No good grazing in the vicinity so doubtful if it was used as a booley hut, at least not in post-medieval period.
See attached photograph courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 26 August 2020
References
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 Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.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 Seasonal settlement and the interpretation of upland archaeology in the Galtee Mountains, Ireland. Landscape History 37(1), 87-98.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.