1998:038 - ENNIS: 49 Abbey Street (Rear of), Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: ENNIS: 49 Abbey Street (Rear of)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0028

Author: Anne Connolly, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 533869m, N 677708m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.846241, -8.981715

Pre-development testing was carried out at the rear of No. 49 Abbey Street, Ennis, from 2 to 12 February 1998, in advance of a proposed housing development at the site. The site was directly adjacent to Ennis Friary in an archaeologically sensitive area within Ennis town.

Four trial-trenches were excavated manually. Three of these revealed a homogeneous stratigraphy comprising mainly garden soil coming down onto natural, undisturbed clay and bedrock. The fourth trench excavated revealed an unprecedented depth of mortar and debris, indicating its use as a dump in recent times. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed.

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