Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
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
- 52.31258, -7.98844
- SMR number
- TS087-007009-
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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). Foundation trench excavated (Excavation number E00455) in 1987-1991 (Doody 2007, 28-9, Structure 10), interpreted by excavator as being a portion of a building which extended towards the E and based on construction morphology is similar to the excavated Bronze Age houses, TS087-007001-; TS087-007002-; TS087-007003-; TS087-007004-; TS087-007005-, located c. 13m to the NNW; c. 20m to NNW; c. 13m to NW; c. 12m to W and c. 8m to WSW 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.
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.