County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: Morton St./William St./Short St.
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 83:19 Licence number: 95E0029
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 620145m, N 622350m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.352375, -7.704280
The trial excavation was carried out at Morton St., Clonmel, in late March 1995. Its purpose was to assess the archaeological significance of the site in advance of building works. The site is located in the northern part of the medieval town and c. 20m to the north of the line of the medieval town wall.
There was no trace of medieval strata or features. The evidence indicated that much of the activity on the site dates to the post-medieval and the modern periods. There were extensive deposits of disturbed garden material dating back to the post-medieval period. The remains of a cess-pit were also found on the site. It contained a very dark, sticky and smelly fill. The finds from the pit included oyster shells, a small quantity of animal bone, a large quantity of post-medieval pottery and some fragmented clay pipes. Nothing else of interest was found on the site.
1 Jervis Place, Clonmel, Co .Tipperary
