County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: Hearn's Hotel, Parnell Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0497
Author: Jo Moran, ArchaeoGrafix
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 621099m, N 622737m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.355817, -7.690255
An archaeological assessment was required as a planning condition for an extension to the ballroom at the rear of Hearn's Hotel. The site is outside the medieval walled town, in the area of the 17th-century east suburbs. The hotel building has an integral carriageway that previously led to a courtyard where Bianconi established stables and workshops for his coaching enterprise.
A cobbled floor, drain and wall stump were uncovered, the remains of outbuildings around the yard. These overlay a deep garden soil (with no datable finds), over a thin, silty, red/brown soil over gravel. The red/brown soil is likely to be the remains of an earlier (medieval) cultivation soil, although no finds were recovered from the layer.
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