2004:1636 - THURLES: Thurles CBS, O'Donovon Rossa Street, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: THURLES: Thurles CBS, O'Donovon Rossa Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 04E0521
Author: Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 612447m, N 658943m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.681500, -7.815910
A new school hall was to be built for the Thurles Christian Brothers school. The small-scale development is sited within the zone of archaeological potential for Thurles, SMR 41:42. The site of the new hall is in the vicinity of the medieval town defences and has the potential to uncover subsurface features associated with it.
Three test-trenches were mechanically excavated across the footprint of the building. Several modern, stone-filled soak pits were uncovered. No finds or features of archaeological significance were uncovered.