2000:0805 - BIRR: Chapel Street, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: BIRR: Chapel Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 35:12
Licence number: 00E0228
Author: Kenneth Wiggins
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Vartry Close, Raheen, Co. Limerick
Site type: House - 19th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 606007m, N 704736m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.093182, -7.910311
A test excavation was carried out on a small site where the construction of a terrace of three townhouses was proposed. Two trial cuttings were mechanically excavated on 14 April 2000. The excavation revealed two walls relating to 19th-century cottages that formerly occupied the site, but no archaeological features pre-dating this period were uncovered. Rubble derived from the demolition of the cottages was present on the site, and there was much artefactual material of modern origin in this debris.