County: Tipperary Site name: THURLES: Wolfe Tone Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0562
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 612544m, N 658583m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.678270, -7.814500
Monitoring of groundworks took place on 29 April 2004 at a development in Wolfe Tone Place, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. The proposed development is within the constraint for the town of Thurles (SMR 41:42). The extant three-storey building on the site was derelict. It formerly housed a butcher's hall on the ground floor with residential accommodation above. The building was retained as part of the new development.
The groundworks comprised a reduction in the ground-floor level of 0.3m in an area measuring 10.2m east-west by 6.1m wide. It also involved the excavation for two pads which measured 1.4m by 1.4m by 0.5–0.6m deep and 1.6m by 1.5m by 0.5m deep.
Below the concrete floor was a fill that consisted of sand and red and yellow brick. Below this was mid- to dark-brown friable silt loam, which covered grey loose sand and gravel. The fill contained modern artefacts and occasional animal-bone fragments.
The concrete and fill were associated with the existing modern building on the site. The mid- to dark-brown friable silt loam could have represented the original topsoil. The grey loose sand and gravel was a natural deposit. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
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