County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Feehan’s Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:25 Licence number: 02E0210
Author: Niall Gregory, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 607838m, N 640414m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.515050, -7.884512
A test excavation was conducted on 8 and 9 March 2002 before a housing development by Cashel Urban District Council. A 2m-wide grading bucket was used to excavate eight trenches measuring 116m in combined length. The trenches were excavated to the surface of the subsoil, where Victorian garden plots were encountered on poorly drained soil. Stone-filled drains were also revealed. The 13th-century town ditch was also encountered running along one edge of the site. It was 3m wide and up to 2.8m deep. The remains of a 13th-century corner tower were discovered within the reconstituted line of the town wall, dating to 1784, adjacent to the ditch. Nothing of an artefactual nature was recovered.
24 Queen Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
