County: Tipperary Site name: CURRAGHATOOR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Martin Doody, Dept. of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Settlement cluster
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 600050m, N 610853m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.249401, -7.999264
A sixth season of excavation was carried out at the site during a nine-week period in July and August 1991. The excavation was funded by a grant from the Royal Irish Academy.
The site has produced evidence for a settlement of Bronze Age date. The main features are the remains of possibly 8 hut structures, fence lines and a palisade trench. Six of the huts are circular in plan, while two, uncovered during the current season, are rectangular. A feature of the hut construction is the use of foundation trenches in six of the structures identified.
During this year's work a small stone-lined kiln was recorded close to the huts.
The evidence as it stands suggests that at least some of the hut structures were surrounded by a substantial palisade which then appears to have gone out of use with the further expansion of the settlement.
