County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: Disney’s Yard, Gladstone Street Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0110
Author: Michael Tierney and Margot Ryan, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 620345m, N 622550m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.354165, -7.701333
The erection of a two-storey building was planned for this site. Clonmel Corporation imposed initial conditions on the development that necessitated a standing building survey and archaeological testing. A number of historical documents suggested that the North Gate of the town wall was once located on this site. There was no definitive evidence for this theory.
Four test-trenches were dug, three at the base of existing walls and the fourth extending towards the centre of the site.
Two of the walls investigated (Walls 1 and 2) consisted of two phases of construction. The earliest phase was most likely representative of 17th-century activity, which was contemporary with the pit features. A sealed doorway was located within the lower courses of Wall 1.
A number of pit features were uncovered. They were irregular in morphology and their surface layers varied between grey and black silty clays. Frequent amounts of bone, charred bone and post-medieval pottery were uncovered on the surface of these features. The pits were not excavated. A small number of sgraffito ware and other medieval pottery sherds were uncovered in a substantial layer of garden soil.
Mitigation measures were proposed, suggesting that levels of archaeology be recognised and that no construction works directly affect archaeological remains.
Unit 2F, Dungarvan Business Park, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
