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Structure

Curraghatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Structure, 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
52.31258, -7.98844
SMR number
TS087-007009-

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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). 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

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

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