County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:25 Licence number: 99E0747
Author: Niall Gregory
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 607623m, N 640604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.516757, -7.887675
Monitoring of footpath replacement and service pipe-laying was conducted between 20 December 1999 and 19 January 2000 within Cashel Town, a recognised urban medieval area. The areas in which the work took place were Ladyswell, Main Street, Camus Road, the junction of Agar’s Lane and Friar Street, Feehan’s Road, the Green, Sunnyside, the junction of Sunnyside and Clonmel Road, and the junction of the Green and the Old Road.
With the exception of the junction of Agar’s Lane and Friar Street, all of the footpath replacement incorporated service pipe-laying. This involved removing the concrete or cracked limestone flagstone paving and replacing it with a combination of limestone kerbs, in which brick was laid. The footpath in Ladyswell used a combination of bricks and limestone flagstones.
In all cases the ground was dug to a depth of 0.25m for the width of the paths and reset with an underlayer of pea gravel, upon which sand was laid. Where service pipe-trenches were dug, the depth of excavation increased a further 0.15–0.2m for a width of 0.4m. The nature of the soil encountered varied from modern rubble debris underlying the paths to natural, orange subsoil. No archaeological features or finds were encountered.
Flat 1, Main Street, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
