County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Camus Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 61:25 Licence number: 00E0072 ext.
Author: Mary G. O’Donnell, Archaeological Services Unit, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 606987m, N 641114m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.521352, -7.897042
The site of a proposed housing development at Camus Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, is within the zone of archaeological potential of Cashel. A test excavation was carried out by Flor Hurley in 2000 as part of an archaeological assessment of the site, and the recommendations of this assessment were included in the planning conditions. These included monitoring of all groundworks during construction. Monitoring of topsoil removal and excavation of house foundations on part of the site was undertaken in February 2001.
The topsoil on the site was up to 1m thick in places and yielded many sherds of 19th- and 20th-century pottery. A number of field drains were apparent in the subsoil. No finds or features of archaeological significance were uncovered.
