County: Tipperary Site name: INISLOUNAGHT, Clonmel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0482
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 621099m, N 622737m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.355817, -7.690255
Monitoring of ground disturbance was undertaken at a large housing development at Inislounaght, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. The works were carried out on behalf of a local building company and in accordance with planning permission, which stipulated that topsoil-stripping should be monitored. The development is situated at the outskirts of the town, on one of its approach roads. There are no known archaeological sites in the area of the development.
The soil-stripping was undertaken using a 20-tonne track machine with a toothless bucket. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered. The entire field where the development is situated had been intensively cultivated over a long period of time, and consequently the underlying soil had been badly disturbed by ploughing. The depth of topsoil was greater where the site sloped downwards towards the road, and it was from this section that evidence for field clearance emerged. The topsoil contained frequent sherds of modern pottery, glass, broken clay pipes, lumps of coal and numerous broken oyster and limpet shells. A burnt spread was exposed. However, it proved to be modern, with 19th–20th-century pottery and glass within and under the burnt spread.
24 Queen Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
