County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: 36–37 Parnell Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0649
Author: Jo Moran, ArchaeoGrafix
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 620531m, N 622485m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353574, -7.698607
An archaeological impact assessment of the proposed development was requested ahead of granting planning permission to demolish the recent standing building on site and to construct a new, four-storey building in its place, within the existing boundary walls. A report was prepared on the standing building and walls, and three test-trenches were excavated.
The test excavations suggest that 17th-century (or older) buildings stood along the street front. A robbed wall trench had been backfilled with glazed ridge-tiles (17th-century?), pottery and bottle glass. Finds dating to the late 17th and 18th centuries were recovered from other contexts in Trench 1, but no medieval finds were recovered.
Excavation stopped at the level of the late 17th/18th-century features. An earlier, red/brown, silty soil overlying the gravelly subsoil was exposed but not excavated and is probably medieval.
Trench 2 cut through rubble 0.55m thick over a garden soil. The rubble (sandstone blocks, cobbles, slate and floor tiles) is likely to have derived from the walls of the 19th-century building previously on the site. The garden soil 0.4m deep overlay a red/brown soil (medieval cultivation?) over gravel. No finds were recovered.
Trench 3, on the street front, was excavated to a depth of 0.6m through compacted (recently), imported gravel.
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