2014:229 - AUGHNAGOMAUN: Ballytarsna Castle, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: AUGHNAGOMAUN: Ballytarsna Castle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS053-006
Licence number: 14E320
Author: Dave Pollock
Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 611520m, N 649290m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.594759, -7.829968
The installation of a new drain and septic tank/percolation area for Ballytarsna Castle was monitored in September 2014. Stripping topsoil from the new percolation area exposed a late ditch and plough furrows post-dating the use of the bawn, and opening a long trench for a surface water drain exposed the fills of a number of ditches, some or all associated with the post-medieval townland boundary.
No medieval or early post-medieval pottery was recovered, and no evidence for buildings.
