County: Waterford Site name: TALLOW: Convent Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA028-015 Licence number: 04E1637
Author: Deborah Sutton, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 599518m, N 593795m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.096073, -8.007026
Three test-trenches were excavated in the rear garden of a cornmill located on the west side of Convent Street, Tallow. It is proposed to demolish the mill buildings and develop the site.
The foundations of a north–south sandstone wall defined the western limit of a cobbled surface exposed at the east end of Trench 1 excavated to the west of the cornmill building. This is likely to be a yard surface associated with the mill. The cobbles were set in a dark-brown sandy clay which that a yellowish-grey sandy boulder clay.
There was nothing of archaeological significance noted in the remaining trenches excavated in the centre and at the west side of the site.
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