2007:87 - Cornmarket Street, Tandragee, Armagh

It is proposed to redevelop a site at Cornmarket Street, Tandragee. Three test-trenches were excavated and the north-western edge of the site was topsoil-stripped using a back-acting machine fitted with a toothless bucket. This revealed that most of the area within the proposed development had been extensively disturbed by recent activity. There were only limited remains of previous occupation, which were concentrated at the south-western edge of the site, including a stone-and-mortar wall, cobbled surface and kerbstones. In addition, there were sufficient remains to suggest that the raised area at the north-west had once been a backyard or possibly a walled garden. However, these remains appear modern in date. In effect, only limited, very fragmented, subsurface archaeological remains survived at Cornmarket Street.