County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: 4 Gladstone Street Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 83:19 Licence number: 97E0139
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 620304m, N 622513m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353834, -7.701937
The site is located to the north of the medieval walled town of Clonmel. The town wall is c. 80m to the south of the site. The excavation of the foundation trench was monitored because of the possibility that remains of extramural post-medieval suburbs might be encountered. The trench for the foundation was 7.3m long and 1m wide.
A series of deposits and layers consisting of small round stones, redeposited boulder clay and a very light brown soil with a high content of stone, mortar, red brick and fragmented slate extended from beneath the modern concrete surface to a darkish brown garden soil. The garden soil, which occurred at a depth of 0.5m below the concrete surface, was relatively sterile. The garden soil overlay yellowish-brown boulder clay.
The monitoring confirmed the absence of archaeological remains and that there was no medieval or post-medieval activity on the site that could be conclusively associated with any extramural suburban settlement.
1 Jervis Place, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
