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Tel-harsa; Tel-haresha

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(uncultivated hill). A place in Babylonia whence captive Jews returned (Ezra 2:59⁵⁹And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: (Ezra 2:59); Neh. 7:61⁶¹And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. (Nehemiah 7:61)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

Place from whence Jews returned from exile (Ezra 2:59⁵⁹And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: (Ezra 2:59); Neh. 7:61⁶¹And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. (Nehemiah 7:61)). Gesenius renders the name “Hill of the Wood.” Not identified.

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

heap of artifice: heap of the artificer