County: Tipperary Site name: CARRICK-ON-SUIR: William Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0320
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 640063m, N 621905m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.347282, -7.411976
An assessment of a residential development of two houses was requested by Carrick-on-Suir Town Council. The site lay c. 20m outside the supposed line of the town wall on William Street. A small fragment of wall nearby is purported to be part of the town wall. It is likely that a ditch would originally have run outside the wall, close to the development site, but no evidence of this was found in the test-trenches excavated. The adjacent Catholic church was constructed in 1820, and the demolished buildings on the development site dated principally to the 1970s and were used as a sawmill. According to local information, this sawmill had replaced farm buildings in the earlier 20th century.
Six trenches were excavated by machine. In each the overburden directly overlay glacial gravels. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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