County: Tipperary Site name: BOSCABELL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:27 Licence number: 02E0376
Author: Anne-Marie Lennon, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 610168m, N 641942m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.528748, -7.850145
Pre-construction testing was undertaken at this location on the proposed N8 Cashel Bypass because of the proximity of a moated site and because several cropmarks were identified nearby from aerial photography.
Testing was divided into two areas. The first was to the west of the moated site, where a centre-line strip was opened for a length of 75m, with perpendicular offsets at 10m intervals on the east side of the centre-line and at 15m on the west side, extending to the road-take. Most of the features uncovered were to the east of the centre trench, closest to the moated site. They comprised stake-/ post-holes and several spreads of burnt stone contained within shallow pits. Only preliminary investigations of these features was undertaken.
The second area investigated, measuring 130m by 110–130m, was to the south of the moated site, with particular emphasis given to two semicircular cropmarks. The only feature uncovered was an oval pit, measuring 0.66m by 0.44m by 0.3m deep. A sherd of Beaker pottery was found in the second, lower fill.
24 Queen Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
