County: Tipperary Site name: CARRICK-ON-SUIR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 85:4 Licence number: 98E0259
Author: Florence M. Hurley
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 640294m, N 621876m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.346997, -7.408599
The Carrick-on-Suir Main Drainage Scheme, Phase I, started in August 1998 and is currently ongoing (see Excavations 1998, 190, for the first stages). The scheme will see the laying of new storm and foul sewers in much of the town, including parts of the medieval town and its suburb of Carrickbeg on the south bank of the river. Pre-construction testing and monitoring of pipeline excavations are taking place. Work to date has been centred on the North Quays, the northern part of the town along the N24, and where the second and smaller of the detention tanks is being built in Carrickbeg.
The work on the Quay has revealed more of the late 18th/early 19th-century quay wall. Most of this is directly beneath the front walls of the buildings on the quayside, c. 5–8m behind the present quay wall. A propeller from one of the small tugs used on the Suir in the late 19th/early 20th century was found buried in the present quay.
Work along the N24 in the town revealed numerous 19th-century culverts. A concentration of dressed stone found amongst a large layer of fill on the Waterford road, 1.5km east of the town, also dates to the same period and was deposited when the road was realigned in the 1970s.
In Carrickbeg the only deposits found to date are natural subsoil or riverine deposits. A number of 19th-century culverts were also found.
Work on the project is continuing, with the core areas of the medieval town and suburb yet to be examined.
8 Marina Park, Victoria Road, Cork
