2014:229 - Ballytarsna Castle, Aughnagomaun, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: Ballytarsna Castle, Aughnagomaun

Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS053-006 Licence number: 14E320

Author: Dave Pollock

Site type: Stone castle

Period/Dating:

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.

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