County: Tipperary Site name: DRUMMIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0604
Author: Mary B. Deevy, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 585853m, N 680338m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.873755, -8.210133
An assessment was carried out at a site in Drummin townland, Co. Tipperary, before the proposed construction of approximately 300 houses and a retail centre on the site. A previous archaeological survey, carried out by Rosanne Meenan, revealed very faint cropmarks visible in aerial photographs; it was suggested that these possibly represented the remains of archaeological features.
Three 200m x 1.5m test-trenches were mechanically excavated through these and other possible cropmarks, none of which revealed any archaeological remains. A fourth test-trench to investigate a small earthwork visible on the surface of the field uncovered the remains of a 19th-century structure not shown on the first edition OS 6-inch map (1840) but recorded on the second edition OS 6-inch map (1901–2) as a rectangular earthwork.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
