County: Tipperary Site name: WINDMILL (Site 37)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0419
Author: Neil Fairburn, for Judith Carroll Network Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: House - 18th/19th-century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 606700m, N 639280m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.504871, -7.901298
Phase 2 excavation at Site 37 was carried out on behalf of South Tipperary County Council in advance of construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road. The scheme involves a 6km bypass route of the town and a 2km link road of the N74.
Site 37 had previously been investigated by Anne Marie Lennon (Excavations 2002, No. 1776, 02E0378) during Phase 1 pre-construction works in 2002. The investigation identified the ruins of a possible late 18th-/early 19th-century cottage and farm buildings. These had been marked on the OS first-edition map, but, by the publication of the second-edition map, they had fallen into ruins.
Work at Site 37 revealed the nature and extent of a multi-phase farmstead complex, comprising a farmhouse and associated outbuildings, surfaces and field boundaries. The major construction phases can be assigned to the period 1700–1840, although the building's use as a farmhouse may have continued into the early 20th century and agricultural activity on the site probably persisted into the mid-20th century.
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