2019:211 - CLONMEL: Gordon Street, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: CLONMEL: Gordon Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS083-019--- (historic town), TS083-019049- (town defences)
Licence number: E005082; C000899
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 32 Nicholas St, King's Island, Limerick V94V6F7
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 620027m, N 622420m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353001, -7.706022
Five trenches were excavated across the site, which was proposed for a car park. The Town Wall was uncovered in Trench 1, located 0.4m below present ground level. It forms the foundation for a later (nineteenth-century) boundary wall. The town wall survived only as a well-built rubble foundation, 0.87m high and resting on limestone bedrock. Its width could not be ascertained. Only 0.3m of it was visible on the site, as the later wall was set back on top of it. No archaeological features were encountered in the other trenches.