2023:874 - Bohercrow, Tipperary Town Centre, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: Bohercrow, Tipperary Town Centre
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS067-004
Licence number: 23E0357
Author: Martin E. Byrne
Author/Organisation Address: Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Site type: Historic Town
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 589207m, N 635968m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.475034, -8.158869
A programme of Archaeological Monitoring of the foundation pits/trenches associated with the erection of eleven replacement electricity supply poles was at Tipperary Town, Co. Tipperary
All of the replacement poles were located within the RMP Zone/SMR Zone of Notification established with respect to Tipperary (Historic Town; SMR No:TS067-004; none of the replacement poles were positioned in close proximity of any previously identified individual monuments or associated extents
Notification of the works was submitted to the National Monuments Service, as required under Section 12(3) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, who recommended that all ground disturbance associated with the works be monitored by an archaeologist and under licence from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
The works were located with pavements/footpaths along Abbey Street, Upper Church Street, Davis Street, James Street and St Michael’s Street; a green area along Bohercrow Road and within the carriageways of James Street and Blind Lane.
The surface dimensions of the trenches varied in size, up to a maximum of 0.9m x 1.9m, and terminated at depths of 1.6–1.9m.
No subsurface features of archaeological interest or potential were uncovered by the excavations; a single shred of green-glazed Tipperary-type pottery, of medieval date, was recovered from GP739 at the junction of Davis Street with Mitchell Street. This probably relates to the occupancy of the town in the early Anglo-Norman period.