County: Tipperary Site name: CLONMEL: 7 Morton Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS083-019 Licence number: 05E0667
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 620131m, N 622591m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.354539, -7.704476
Testing works were undertaken at No. 7 Morton Street as part of further information for planning permission to renovate a listed house. The site is just to the north of the line of the town wall. Cartographic evidence suggested that the rear of the site, where the testing took place, was possibly on the alignment of the medieval town wall/town ditch. No evidence was found to suggest the presence of the town wall on the site. Equally, no evidence emerged for a town ditch, although test excavations ceased at 1.3m in depth. It was also noticeable that no sealed context pertaining to the post-medieval period, let alone the medieval period, was discovered within the test-trench. There was little evidence in the trench of any activity at the rear of the site prior to the 1830s. However, the testing area was limited and the town ditch may be located between the test-trench and the town wall to the south.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
