County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Chapel Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS061-025---- Licence number: 02E1802
Author: Colm Moloney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Structure, Watercourse and Building
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 607623m, N 640604m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.516757, -7.887675
Testing was undertaken in advance of the drilling of piles and the excavation of pile caps for the construction of a row of townhouses at Chapel Lane, Cashel, in response to earlier testing by Dave Pollock (Excavations 2002, No. 1708) and recommendations resulting from that work.
Three trenches were excavated down to the proposed level of disturbance revealing a thick layer of modern hardcore. At each of the pile locations a sondage was excavated through the hardcore to a depth of 1.5m. Archaeological features consisted of a stone wall at the north end of Trench 3 which may have formed part of a post-medieval building. A disturbed culvert of probable 18th/19th-century date was identified at the north end of Trench 2. A tile floor and disturbed flagstone surface were identified at the centre of Trench 1 and these are again likely to date to the 18th or 19th century. All of these features overlay a thick layer of black clay loam which contained pottery of probable 17th-century date and which was not bottomed.
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