County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Our Lady's Hospital, The Green
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS061-025---- Licence number: 98E0302 ext.
Author: Mary G. O'Donnell, Archaeological Services Unit, University College Cork
Site type: Town defences and Earthwork
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 607581m, N 640297m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.514005, -7.888310
Work continued on the redevelopment of Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, previously reported in Excavations 1998, No. 596 and 2002, No. 1713. A portion of the town wall forms the boundary between the hospital and the site of the development, with the hospital being outside the town wall. Existing services from the hospital were extended into the new development under the foundations of the town wall, at a pre-existing modern breach. During this work, a ditch was uncovered on the outside of the wall. A 2m-wide section of the ditch was excavated. It was a broad, fairly shallow cut with a sloping base and measured c. 5.5m wide and 1–1.6m deep. It was filled with a single 0.7–1.2m-thick layer of brown compact sticky clay, which contained charcoal flecks, below modern deposits. No date for the excavation of the ditch or the construction of the wall was established. The ditch is similar to one found on the exterior of the wall at 44–46 Main Street/Lower Gate Square on the western side of the town.
