2002:1702 - CARRICK-ON-SUIR: South Quay, Carrick Beg, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: CARRICK-ON-SUIR: South Quay, Carrick Beg

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 85:4 Licence number: 02E0448

Author: Laurence Dunne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects

Site type: Town

Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)

ITM: E 639884m, N 621295m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.341805, -7.414675

This development site, in Carrick Beg, c. 30m west of the Old Bridge on the southern bank of the River Suir, is within the zone of archaeological potential of Carrick-on-Suir. The site was previously occupied by what appears to have been an 18th- or early 19th-century courtyard, with three-storey warehouses on four sides. The remnants of these structures, except for the boundary walls, were demolished before Eachtra was engaged to conduct monitoring of groundworks as required by planning conditions imposed by An Bord Pleanála.

Monitoring of the house foundations and associated service trenches revealed three wall foundations that correlated with the buildings on the first-edition OS map (1841) and eight circular refuse pits in the courtyard area, with an average diameter of 1.5m, which were dated by pottery association to the 18th or early 19th century. A fragment of a millstone (0.08m by 0.5m by 0.12m) was recovered from an 18th-century layer at 0.6m below present ground level. All of the pits were found directly under the uppermost layer of rubble and topsoil, at c. 0.2m below present ground level. The deepest service trench was excavated to 1.6m below present ground surface on the northern side of the site, and no archaeological features were identified.

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