County: Tipperary Site name: THURLES: Cathedral Street Carpark
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TN041-042 Licence number: 04E1022 and ext.
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 612877m, N 658663m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.678974, -7.809563
An assessment of a proposed civic development at Cathedral Street Carpark, Thurles, was requested by the client, Tipperary North Riding County Council. Desk-top assessment indicated that the majority of the site was a marshy inlet of the River Suir until at least the mid-19th century. This was confirmed by testing, which, beneath the modern tarmac and hardcore, revealed 19th-century rubble reclamation deposits overlying an organic river mud, which in turn covered the substratum. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted.
Three-castles, Kilkenny
