County: Tipperary Site name: MIDDLE QUARTER, Newcastle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 88:32 Licence number: 00E0664
Author: Mary O’Donnell, Archaeological Services Unit, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 612407m, N 611075m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.251255, -7.818285
A site at the western edge of Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, was proposed as the location for a housing development for the elderly. The proposed site was within the historic town of Newcastle and close to a church and graveyard and the ruins of a castle.
Initially three test-trenches were excavated in May 2000, and no archaeological material was uncovered. Subsequently groundworks on the site were monitored in November 2000, and again no archaeological material was uncovered.
