County: Tipperary Site name: MARLFIELD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1091
Author: Anne-Marie Lennon, AML Archaeology, 6 Hillview Cresent, Cahir, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: Tree ring, burials
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 616034m, N 621703m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.346688, -7.764657
Two possible enclosure sites identified during field-walking were tested prior to development of a golf course. One of the sites proved to be a late 18th/early 19th-century tree ring. Testing of the second site revealed four burials, c. 0.4m below ground level, enclosed by a single ditch c. 1.6m deep, 3.4m wide. No diagnostic finds were recovered, but it is likely that the site may date from the early historic period. The locations of the burials within the enclosure were recorded and will be preserved in situ.
