2005:1405 - ABBEY STREET LOWER, CAHIR, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: ABBEY STREET LOWER, CAHIR

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 75:48 Licence number: 05E1144

Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 604800m, N 624988m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.376435, -7.929490

Testing works were undertaken at Lower Abbey Street, Cahir, as part of granted planning permission to build six townhouses. Four trenches were opened on the site. No archaeological features or deposits were discovered in any of the trenches. The site had been infilled with building rubble of modern date to raise the levels to accommodate a building which previously occupied the site.