County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN: Dirty Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0242
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 625709m, N 593020m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.088504, -7.624851
Four small test-pits were cut by hand on the site of recently demolished walls. The recently demolished building was erected over an 18th-century cobbled surface (Power’s Lane, an earlier and wider version of Dirty Lane). The building and the lane overlay a heavy cultivation soil over and infilling clay-extraction pits, with no indication of earlier buildings disturbed by cultivation or cut by pits. The lack of evidence for medieval buildings is clear and corresponds with results from a nearby trench (on Davitt’s Quay; see Excavations 1996, 110–11, 96E0174, 3m distant from one of the test-pits). The site is 12m from Main Street.
Arbour Hill, Fethard, Co. Tipperary
