Archaeological Excavations at Tullahedy County Tipperary. Neolithic Settlement in North Munster: Review
Rose M. Cleary & Hilary Kelleher. The Collins Press, Cork, 2011. xxiv+456pp. ISBN-13: 9781848891333. £34 ( via Amazon ) or €39.99 (via The Collins Press ). [** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end. If you think the review is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. **] Tullahedy, Co. Tipperary, is a site that (it seems to me, at least) has been hanging around on the edges of knowledge for some time. The earliest mention of the excavations that I can find in my own library is a brief note in Archaeology Ireland from 1998, noting the richness of the recovered finds and the depth of stratigraphy there ( Anon. 1998 ). This mention, confined to the bottom of a single page, related to the initial set of excavations carried out as part of the N7 Nenagh Bypass. At this time the site was partially excavated and the remainder preserved in situ . When the bypass was upgraded the remainder of the ...