What is recorded here

Yes. The buried soldiers may have bled into Tannersrath sand during the Clonmel siege of 1649, waiting for quarry men to tear them out decades or centuries later. That is the shape of the place: a field that consumed a battle, then gave back bones only when dug for hospital stone. The living did not discover the dead; the living were building, taking sand, and the dead rose through the work.

On a N-facing slope in undulating terrain. On the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map there is a quarry marked at this location. According to Power (1907, 298) 'in a sandpit...human bodies, to the number of perhaps forty, have recently been found. These are supposed to have been soldiers slain during the siege of Clonmel, 1649'. The quarry was filled in c. 40 years ago and is now a green field which slopes to N with a silage pit at the N end of the former quarry area. There is a new bungalow in the field W of the former quarry. The owner thought that the sand was extracted when St. Luke's hospital in Clonmel was being built. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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