County: Tipperary Site name: Ballytohil
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0048
Author: Joanne Hughes, Boscabell, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 633683m, N 635274m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.467865, -7.504276
The clients applied to South Tipperary County Council for planning permission to construct agricultural buildings and ancillary services on their farm in Ballytohil, Mullinahone, and within the site TS071–039 (an enclosure). Five test-trenches were machine excavated in advance of the development works on 29 January 2008. Other than evidence for modern field drains and an infilled ditch (a relatively modern drainage feature) in Trenches 4 and 5, nothing of archaeological significance was identified on-site during this phase of work.
The clients had previously acquired planning permission to construct a dwelling house on the same site and that development was preceded by testing conducted by the writer (Excavations 2004, No. 1564, 04E0404). Other than the recovery of an unusually high number of clay-pipe stems and fragments from topsoil, nothing of archaeological significance was identified as part of that work.
The combination of two phases of testing on this site suggests that nothing of archaeological significance survives in the area indicated on the RMP as being within the enclosure. The designation of this site as an RMP is based on an aerial survey interpretation from 1974. Following the second phase of testing here, the existence of an enclosure at this location is further in doubt.
