County: Tipperary Site name: RACECOURSE, Thurles
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 41:45 Licence number: 96E0278
Author: Jo Moran
Site type: Quarry
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 609948m, N 660042m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.691436, -7.852841
Test excavation was carried out to locate and investigate a site classified as an 'enclosure' in the SMR. The site is represented as an oval shape, using a broken line, on the first-edition OS map (1843).
Three test-trenches identified two quarry areas in the position of the 'enclosure'. The smaller of the two had been infilled with quarry waste and topsoil once quarrying had finished. The other appears to have remained open until relatively recently, when it was finally infilled with domestic rubbish and covered in topsoil. There was no evidence of an earlier enclosure in this area into which the quarries cut.
Sonas, Rathduff, Fethard, Co. Tipperary
