2025:173 - CASHEL: 18 Dominic Street, Tipperary

The site involved monitoring of single-storey extension to a 1950’s two-storey semi-detached house within 60m of the Dominician Abbey (TS061-025007). The house formed part of a row of council houses built in the 1950s as single development. Archaeological monitoring found the location of the extension received imported garden soil to a depth of 1.15m. This soil horizon contained 14th-century floor tile fragments, a possible contemporary roof tile, mixed with a 19th-century candle holder and 20th-century crockrey and bottles and glass.

It was surmised that the 1950s development caused the soil to be stripped off the site at that time for the entire development, stockpiled—causing the mixed material from different periods, and then reintroduced as gardens during completion works. This is substantiated with the presence of 20th-century interdictions into the the underlying natural subsoil—two drainage sumps and a drainage ditch filled with small to medium quarried stone.