County: Tipperary Site name: CASHEL: Feehan's Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS061-025 Licence number: 04E0149
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 607830m, N 640403m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.514949, -7.884631
Monitoring was undertaken at Feehan's Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, as part of granted planning permission to build seventeen houses. Although within the zone of archaeological potential for Cashel, the site is to the south of, and outside, the walled town. A 4m buffer zone was retained between the site and the town wall.
The results from monitoring confirmed that the site had been disturbed by previous activity, including ploughing and land drainage, both probably being carried out at the same time (late post-medieval/modern period) to improve ground conditions. No evidence for medieval activity was found on the site. This would suggest that this area outside the walled town was probably a fallow area, unused due to strategic and security reasons, given its close location to the fortified town wall and associated ditch.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
