County: Tipperary Site name: TIPPERARY: 22 Davis Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS067-004 Licence number: 04E1235
Author: John Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 588939m, N 635983m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.475169, -8.162804
Monitoring was undertaken at 22 Davis Street to comply with a planning condition. The site is located immediately inside the northern limit of the zone of archaeological potential for Tipperary town. There are no recorded sites on Davis Street, but the possible line of the town wall may be located on the southern boundary of the development site.
The upper layer on the site consisted of a modern tar/concrete surface. Evidence of ground disturbance was encountered in all of the trenches in the form of sanitary and water clay pipes. The trench in the south-east corner of the site contained the remains of possible disturbed cobbling. A layer of charcoal-enriched black sandy clay containing very loosely compacted small rounded stones underlay the modern surface. The layer extended for c. 3.5m and contained a number of horseshoes. It is probably associated with the recently demolished building, which had functioned as a forge. The natural subsoil was a light-yellow/orange sand.
No archaeological stratigraphy or finds were recorded during monitoring of excavation of the foundation trenches.
Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork
