County: Carlow Site name: Bridge Street, Tullow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1092
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 685172m, N 673199m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.803056, -6.736855
Monitoring of groundworks was undertaken during the redevelopment of the Tullow Credit Union site. The site is located adjacent to the bridge across the River Slaney. Groundworks at the site involved demolition of standing buildings and the reduction of ground levels by as much as 2.5m. Rubble and other made ground overlay a completely water-saturated dark-brown silty clay containing very occasional bones and clay pipe. The site appeared to have been reclaimed from the Slaney in the post-medieval period.
