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Archaeology in Tipperary Seminar

Archaeology in Tipperary Seminar

19th January 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

In association with its exhibition Earthern Banks and Broken Walls, South Tipperary County Museum will host a one day seminar on Archaeology in South Tipperary. This seminar will outline and highlight some recent, current and on-going projects in archaeology in the County. Topics will include recent road projects and the Tipp Archaeological Survey amongst others.

Venue:

The Clonmel Park Hotel, The Poppyfield

Admission Free – all welcome

Contact: Julia Walsh. South Tipp Museum.

Tel: 052 34562 or email: [email protected]

Iron Age discoveries at Two-Mile-Borris. Or not.

Interesting excavations have been made at Two-Mile-Borris, near the river behind Black Castle. A large central structure with surrounding huts has been discovered – houses for a chieftain and his family? There also seems to be evidence of some Iron Age technology – a water irrigation system. There are also fulachta fia, wood-lined cooking pits which are usually found near water. A cremation area and graves have also been unearthed.

The settlement has been revealed as part of excavation on the Thurles link road, part of the N8 Cullohill to Cashel motorway project. But of course, the road must prevail and although local Dail deputy, Michael Lowry, said the find “is of huge important historical and archaeological significance for the area” he then added that it would not “in any way hinder progress on the link road”. What a relief, eh.

Landowner Pierce Duggan was suitably amazed and said he was “certainly not aware that a find of such significance was on his doorstep”.

But since the announcements, another archaeologist has disputed there’s anything exciting there at all, as you can read at

tipperarytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3162&ArticleID=1698822

Summarised from the article at

tipperarytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3162&ArticleID=1685756

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The Dolmens of Tipperary

The Dolmens of Tipperay by Henry S.Crawford

found from page 38 onwards of The Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland

VOl XL 1910

Also information and a picture of the bullaun stone at Gortavoher in the Glen of Aherlow showing the 2nd Bullaun stone that is beside the river not just the one beside the road – page 60

Includes pictures, plans and descriptions from this time.