County: Tipperary Site name: BROOKLANDS, Nenagh North, Nenagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0567
Author: Ken Hanley
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 586757m, N 680135m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.871954, -8.196700
Stage 1 of a proposed housing development at Brooklands (formerly Sallygrove), Nenagh North, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, involved the construction of 25 houses on the site, although the planning application shows 82 houses. Nenagh Urban Distict Council had requested that the developer ‘assess the depth of fill and the area of the site covered relative to the potential existence of archaeological remains’.
A ground investigation report, based on twelve machine-dug test-pits, was submitted by Irish Geotechnical Services Ltd in January 1999. The test-pits revealed an average of 1.2m of ‘made ground’ across the site. This was defined as ‘dense construction and demolition waste comprising concrete blocks, slabs, brick in a clayey gravel matrix’. Below this level, peat had been identified in the south-west and north-east ends of the site, with an underlying clay subsoil.
A proposed pre-development site investigation was cancelled at the request of the developer. The site remains archaeologically unresolved.
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