County: Carlow Site name: TULLOW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 8:45 Licence number: 02E1554
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 685153m, N 673142m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.802547, -6.737152
Pre-construction testing was undertaken on a site fronting the Inner Relief Road at Tullow town centre, Co. Carlow. Six trenches were opened on the footprint of the proposed municipal development, one fronting the River Slaney.
Evidence of archaeological activity in the development area was very scant. Testing confirmed that the site had been filled in the 1980s. The development site was at river level until the 1980s. At that time a mill 100m to the north-east was demolished. All demolition rubble was used to fill in the proposed development site to facilitate a carpark and landscape amenity, raising the area by c. 2m. This accounted for the large amount of jumbled blocks, mortar, cobbles and brick found in the trenches, the geotextile membrane and the morphology of the upper stratigraphic layers.
24 Queen Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
