County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: 24 Mary St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0167
Author: Joanna Wren
Site type: Stable
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 620145m, N 622250m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.351477, -7.704286
Oasis Investments Ltd. proposed building retail units at 24 Mary St., Clonmel, within the area of the walled medieval town. Clonmel Corporation therefore required that the site be assessed archaeologically prior to the development. The work was carried out on 8th October. Three strip test trenches 1m wide were dug by mechanical excavator.
The site had previously been the location of a stables of post-medieval date and much of the material uncovered probably related to the construction of this building. A layer of organic occupation debris of probable medieval date, however, survived 2.6m below the modern ground level on the east side of the site. A pocket of clays and organics uncovered, 0.62m below the modern ground surface to the east, was probably also medieval. It measured 2.5m north-south and 4m east-west and continued for a depth of 1.21m to the natural boulder clay.
The layers were interpreted as being the remains of a sequence of at least two clay floors at three deposits of occupation debris. The building was to be constructed on a raft foundation at a level above the layers of archaeological significance. It was recommended that the site be monitored during construction in case any higher pockets of material survived.
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