County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN: Church Street/Parnell Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 31:4 Licence number: 98E0591
Author: Dave Pollock, ArchaeoGrafix
Site type: House - 17th century, House -18th century and Structure
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 626013m, N 593597m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.093676, -7.620363
The foundation cuts for four new townhouses close to the centre of medieval Dungarvan were inspected and monitored in November 1998. In April 1999 the stump of an old wall on site was investigated and the main service trench was monitored. Ground level at the north end of the site, towards the market place, had been raised during the construction of a number of 18th-century buildings (including Merry's restaurant). It is unclear how much of this area was damaged by earlier clay extraction, but some fragments of medieval levels should have survived (below the excavated foundation level).
At the south end of the site a long 18th-century building with outside stairs on the gable (hence the stump of wide wall) overlay a late 17th-century building with a revetted bank and ditch behind. The line of the bank and ditch survives as a boundary wall further south. Owing to recent disturbance (earlier service trenches), no early building remains or ground levels were observed closer to Church Street.
Church Lane, Stradbally, Co. Waterford
