County: Tipperary Site name: CAHIR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 75:48 Licence number: 96E0347
Author: Frank Ryan, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 605090m, N 624777m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.374533, -7.925244
Monitoring of Cahir Sewerage Scheme, Stage 2, began in December 1996 and was completed in April 1997. The work was undertaken to upgrade and replace existing sewerage pipework within the medieval town and connect more recently built houses in the suburbs to the system. Extensions to the original licence were granted in April and October–December 1997 to monitor works which were extra to the Stage 2 contract.
The areas monitored included Mountain Road, Lower Abbey Street, The Square, Chapel Street, Ardfinnan Road, Mitchelstown Road, Abbey Street, Bridge Street, The Mall and Mall Lane.
The remains of two adjoining mortared stone walls were located below the hotel carpark adjacent to Chapel Street. A further four parallel mortared masonry walls were found at the junction of Bridge Street and Abbey Street, while in the Square, The Mall and Mall Lane sewerage pipes were installed to replace existing stone culverts, some of which were still in use. Natural water-rolled stones and gravel made up the undisturbed profile below the road surface in all areas except for the Mitchelstown Road and Mountain Road, where orange/brown sandy subsoil formed the profile to a maximum depth of approx. 3m.
But for the walls and culverts, which were of post-medieval date, nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.
28 Cabinteely Way, Cabinteely, Dublin 18 and Duke Street, Athy, Co. Kildare
