County: Tipperary Site name: 21 Chapel Street (New Lane), Carrick-on-Suir
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS085–004 Licence number: 07E0689
Author: Maedbh Saunderson, Arch-Tech Ltd, 32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 640100m, N 621812m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.346437, -7.411454
Monitoring of groundworks associated with a residential development at 21 Chapel Street, Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, took place on 30 July 2007. Orientated east–west, the site is a long narrow strip of land which had a house fronting on to Chapel Lane. The eastern half of the site consisted of garden soil and the western half consisted of rubble from the demolition of the initial 1930s house.
The excavation of the foundation trenches was carried out with an 8-tonne rubber-tracked mechanical excavator fitted with a grading bucket measuring 1.6m in width. The trenches were excavated to a depth of 0.5m below the current road (Chapel Street) level. The house foundations were excavated and no archaeological features were uncovered. Excavation took place in the western area of the site only. The trenches extended 13m east from the front of the site. In total 50m of foundation trenches were opened at the site. The eastern extent of the site will remain undisturbed as it will remain a garden. No features or deposits of an archaeological nature were identified during the monitoring programme.
