1996:368 - LAHESSERAGH, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: LAHESSERAGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E318-AR 23

Author: Cia McConway, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 584953m, N 676939m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.843180, -8.223343

The site had been identified in the EIA of the Nenagh Bypass as a possible barrow site consisting of a circular banked enclosure with a central hollow.

One trench was opened up across the shallow hollow and bottomed at subsoil. Excavation indicates the presence of a naturally occurring geological depression, with the subsoil sloping away quite sharply from the north-east of the trench. Stones and small boulders had naturally accumulated at the base of this slope. A homogeneous build-up of topsoil overlay these stones and subsoil and effectively levelled up the hollow.

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