County: Tipperary Site name: KILLENURE CASTLE, KILLENURE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS052–057 Licence number: 09E0105
Author: Dave Pollock, Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford.
Site type: Fortified house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 600103m, N 643905m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.546483, -7.998476
In March 2009, ahead of the construction of a glass box extension at Killenure Castle, Co. Tipperary, two short test-trenches were cut in the proposed footprint. Much of the ground was sheet bedrock, with a shallow cover of soil with 19th-century construction debris. The earliest surviving layer, north of the bedrock slab, appears to be the core of the 18thcentury yard. No surfaces, wall stumps or cuts were found that might have been associated with the 17thcentury fortified house nearby.
