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House - Bronze Age

Curraghatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Bronze Age, Curraghatoor, 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
Curraghatoor
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.31274, -7.98856
SMR number
TS087-007001-

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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 ground sloping gently to S, in gently undulating terrain, under pasture. No visible trace of houses above ground, though visible as cropmarks on an aerial photograph (GSI May 1977 R. 594/S. 691). Three-quarters of this house excavated (Excavation number E00246) prior to Cork-Dublin gas pipeline in 1982 (Doody 1987, 36-40, Hut 2). Circular structure (diam. 4m), defined by a shallow foundation trench which contained five post-holes (Doody 2007, 20-22, Structure 2). A centrally place post-hole in the interior may have functioned as a supporting post (ibid. 22). A possible entrance feature consisting of a narrow opening (Wth max. 0.3m) represented by a break in the foundation trench existed in the NW quad. (ibid.). The terminals of the foundation trench expanded at this point and two post-holes were recorded on the S side where the foundation trench turned inward towards the interior of the structure with a post-hole also at the N terminal (ibid.). Bronze Age houses (TS087-007002-) and (TS087-007003-) are located c. 4m to SE and c. 5m to E respectively.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 19 November 2013

References

Doody, M. 2007 The excavation. In M. Doody, Excavations at Curraghatoor, Co. Tipperary, 9-35. Department of Archaeology. University College Cork.

Doody, M.G. 1987c Late Bronze Age huts at Curraghatoor, Co. Tipperary. In R.M. Cleary et al. (eds), Excavations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2), 36-40. University College, Cork.

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

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