County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: 33 Parnell Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0708
Author: Jo Moran, Archaeografix
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 620533m, N 622486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353579, -7.698579
An archaeological assessment of the proposed development at 33 Parnell Street was requested ahead of granting planning permission to change the shop, office and site to bar and nightclub facilities, which would form an extension to Hearn’s Hotel at 34/35 Parnell Street.
The development site on Parnell Street (previously known as Bagwell Street) lies outside the medieval walled town in the area of the 17th-century east suburbs. The standing building on the street front is a ‘terraced, single-bay, three-storey house, c. 1820; renovated c. 1980s with shopfront inserted at ground floor’ (Architectural inventory study of Clonmel, 1997. Reg. No. 22005585).
Two test-trenches were excavated: one in the area of the proposed two-storey extension in the yard at the rear of the site (Trench 1), and one behind the street-front building (Trench 2). Trench 1 identified an early garden soil, which produced several sherds of medieval pottery, a few sherds of 17th-century pottery, animal bone, oyster shell, charcoal and lumps of lime. Two walls roughly at a right angle were exposed 1m below present ground level and cut into the early garden soil. One would have bordered a lane behind the property; the other might be associated with a gateway. Material of 18th/19th-century date was recovered from the construction trench.
Trench 2 was small and disturbed by service trenches and recent foundations. A cobbled surface was uncovered under recent rubble, pressed into a garden soil. The cobbles are likely to date to the 19th century, a yard surface behind the street-front building.
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