County: Tipperary Site name: Clashnevin 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E003590
Author: Jo Ronayne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: Pits, post- and stake-holes
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 592524m, N 678965m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.861552, -8.111016
Phase 2 excavations along 17.1km (Contact 1) of the 35km N7 Castletown to Nenagh (Derrinsallagh to Ballintotty) national road scheme were commissioned by Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority. Contract 1 comprises the western half of the scheme and runs from Clashnevin to Castelroan, passing along the Tipperary North and Offaly county border regions. Six areas of archaeology were uncovered during Contract 1 trial-trench testing. Clashnevin 2, testing Area 2.2, was tested under licence E3371 (see No. 1628 above) in 2007.
Loose clusters of pits, post- and stake-holes were excavated at Clashnevin 2; they probably represent a small unenclosed settlement. The site is possibly prehistoric. The excavated features comprised a group of 44 stake-holes, nine pits, five post-holes and two layers. The majority of the features were clustered in the southern part of the site. A sandstone rubbing stone was recorded in one of the post-holes.
Modern agricultural features were also found at the site, including six plough furrows, two of which truncated the main group of archaeological features.
