County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: Joyce's Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 83:19 Licence number: 97E0146
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 619981m, N 622286m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.351806, -7.706705
Although the site is located 40m to the west of the medieval walled town of Clonmel, in Irishtown, a post-medieval suburb, it is nonetheless within the zone of archaeological potential as defined by the Urban Archaeological Survey.
Three test-trenches were opened in advance of the construction of a small apartment block. Dumped material of post-medieval date was encountered at significant depths below modern ground level. Underlying the 19th- and 20th-century fill there was a sealer-like horizon. It appeared to have acted as a damp-proof course for the underlying waterlogged deposits. The deposits consisted of infilled dumped material imported to the site to assist in reclamation from the nearby River Suir. Extensive reclamation occurred to the north of the present bank of the Suir in the mid-18th century. The dumped material used for the reclamation was of post-medieval date. It contained red brick, fragments of slate, charcoal, a small quantity of post-medieval pottery and a moderately high humic content. It extended to depths of between 3.4m and 4m below modern ground level.
1 Jervis Place, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
