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Hut site

Cloheenafishoge, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Cloheenafishoge, 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
Cloheenafishoge
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.35057, -8.04556
SMR number
TS080-023----

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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

Sub-rectangular hut site located in gently-sloping dry heath, building indicated on 1st. ed. OSi 6-inch map. Listed as Cloheenafishoge (Costello 2016, 98; Costello 2016, 314; Costello 2020, 121) and described as a sub-rectangular-hut site (ext. dims. 5.9m x 4.5m; int. dims. 2.6m x 1.4m) aligned NE-SW with entrance (Wth 0.55m) located near SW end of S wall, facing downslope. Partially dug into slope with spoil (largely earth) thrown up to form the walls (avg. ext. H 0.4m; int. H 0.8m; Wth 1m). Heather in the vicinity but bracken and moss grow on the actual building. Some evidence of stone footings on inside of end walls. Too much collapse of earth from side walls to tell if stone foundations lie under them too. Bank – presumably a windbreak – extends 1m out from the E side of the entrance. Modern coniferous plantation with trackway running alongside lies less than 10m to the E of structure.

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. 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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