1980-84:0176 - MOORABBEY, Tipperary

Excavations were carried out in advance of conservation. Work within the church revealed widespread disturbance caused by post-Dissolution burials and modern drains and no medieval features had survived. An area outside the north wall of the church was also excavated. The basal courses of the east and west claustral range walls and one small section of the cloister arcade wall were uncovered. Stone-lined postholes, some with the wooden post still in situ have been interpreted as the remains of scaffolding posts erected during the construction of the 15th-century church. Three burials, all facing west, were found in the south cloister walk. A bronze crucifix, found with one of the burials, has been tentatively dated to the 16th/17th centuries.