Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Curraghatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghatoor
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31266, -7.98872
- SMR number
- TS087-007003-
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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
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). House excavated (Excavation number E00455) in 1987-1991 (Doody 2007, 22-25, Structure 4). Though completely excavated only sections of the S and E survived as remainder was probably destroyed when then a later house (TS087-007----) was built over most of this house (ibid. 22). Circular house (diam. c. 5m) was defined by foundation trenches with associated stake- and post-holes, with a probably entrance on the E side (Wth c. 1m) (ibid.). Internal features include a shallow off-centre hearth with a cluster of stake-holes on its W edge and two post-holes on the S side which may represent a spit over the fire, there were also other internal post-holes, function unknown (ibid. 22-25). Three Bronze Age houses (TS087-007002-), (TS087-007001-) and (TS087-007004) are located c. 4m to N, c. 5m to NE and c. 3m to S respectively.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 November 2013
References
Doody, M. 2007 The excavation. In M. Doody, Excavations at Curraghatoor, Co. Tipperary, 9-35. Department of Archaeology. University College Cork.
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