County: Tipperary Site name: BEAKSTOWN, Thurles
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 41:62 Licence number: 00E0892
Author: Richard O’Brien, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 610148m, N 657143m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.665373, -7.849972
Testing was carried out on the site of a proposed house at Beakstown townland, on 7 December 2000, in response to a condition of planning. Three 2m-wide test-trenches were mechanically excavated c. 30m from the levelled enclosure, SMR 41:62. Within two parallel trenches, evidence for a large, subsoil-cut ditch feature was found. This feature was c. 3.7m wide and east–west-orientated. A possible associated hearth was found near the ditch in Trench 2. A burnt post, found at the edge of the ditch in Trench 3, may have been associated with the ditch activity. The ditch was not investigated further, and no finds were recovered. The relationship between the ditch and the nearby levelled enclosure was not established. However, the finding of these features highlighted the presence of unknown archaeological features peripheral to recorded monuments.
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