County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN: Church Street/Emmett Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0325
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 626224m, N 592994m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.088247, -7.617331
Five trenches were cut by machine and finished by hand on a large site in the angle of Emmett Street and Church Street. Church Street was probably the original street of the medieval town, but the results from three trenches close to the road were disappointing.
The earliest surviving surface was a late 17th/early 18th-century clay floor, which overlay a backfilled clay-extraction pit (perhaps inside a standing building). Clay extraction around and within buildings beside Church Street has removed most of the medieval remains.
A fourth trench cut into large clay pits 20m back from the roadside, but a fifth trench found no clay pits 50m back from the road. Below garden soil intact clay subsoil partly overlay an undisturbed (natural) limestone pavement.
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