County: Tipperary Site name: BOHERMORE, Cashel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:25 Licence number: 99E0687
Author: Emer Dennehy, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 607782m, N 640837m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.518858, -7.885327
Test-trenching before the grant of planning permission was requested for this site because of the proximity of the proposed development to the zone of archaeological potential for Cashel town.
Four trenches were excavated. Trench 1 measured 23m by 2m and was 1.5m deep. Stratigraphy consisted primarily of homogeneous garden soils. Towards the south end of the trench a large pit, 3.04m wide and 0.9m deep, was identified. The contents indicate its use as an 18th-century rubbish pit. Trench 2 measured 58.66m by 2m and was 0.8m deep. Trench 3 measured 20.8m by 2m and was 1m deep. Trench 4 measured 15.58m by 2m and was 0.8m deep. The stratigraphy exposed in Trenches 2–4 was quite similar, consisting of three basic layers-topsoil, garden soil and glacial deposits.
No artefacts or stratigraphy of an archaeological nature were identified during the trenching.
3 Canal Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry
