County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Chapel Lane/Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:25 Licence number: 02E1802
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 607999m, N 641010m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.520401, -7.882136
Test-trenches were cut on the north side of Chapel Lane and under a standing building at the junction of Chapel Lane and Main Street, Cashel, to assess the depth and survival of remains of the medieval town before redevelopment.
A shelf had been cut under part of the standing building in the 18th/early 19th century, removing a large amount of archaeological material, but, under half of the building, remains of medieval clay floors, timber partitions etc. appeared to survive in very good condition.
Clay floors and clay-bonded stone walls found beside Chapel Lane were probably the remains of late medieval buildings, beside the lane running to Moor Gate and the Friary.
A test-trench on the line of the town wall revealed mortared stonework, potentially part of the town wall. Further work will be undertaken here and elsewhere on the site in 2003.
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