County: Waterford Site name: DUNGARVAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0642
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 626013m, N 593597m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.093676, -7.620363
Three test-trenches were opened across the area to be impacted on by a proposed hospital building in the grounds of St Joseph’s Hospital, which was originally constructed as a workhouse during the 19th century. The stratigraphy recorded in all the test-trenches consisted of a mid-greyish-brown, silty clay topsoil layer measuring 0.4m deep, which overlay the dark-yellowish-brown, silty clay natural subsoil. The topsoil layer contained some sherds of 19th/20th-century pottery, brick fragments and charcoal. There were no archaeological features or finds recorded in any of the test-trenches opened at this proposed development site.
