1999:825 - CLONMEL: Hearn's Hotel, Parnell Street, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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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