County: Tipperary Site name: Area 10, Glenbeha/Camlin/Gortmullin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E003379
Author: Colm Flynn, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd, Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 611971m, N 684936m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.915132, -7.822009
Test-trenching was carried out along the route of the proposed N7 Castletown–Nenagh road scheme in the spring of 2007. Testing of the eastern section, Archaeological Contract 2, extended from Castleroan townland in Co. Offaly, eastwards through North Tipperary, to Clonagooden in Co. Laois. The section was divided into eight testing areas, Areas 8–15, each tested under a separate licence.
Archaeological Area 10 ran from Chainage 22.000 to 24.100, through the townlands of Glenbeha, Camlin, and Gortmullin, Co. Tipperary. Works were completed in early April 2007.
One previously known RMP site was tested, and three potential new sites were identified, as follows: Glenbeha 1 (see No. 1671 below), two fulachta fiadh, pits, stake-holes; Camlin 1 (see No. 1596 above), a circular enclosure (ring-ditch/ringfort), a charcoal kiln, a fulacht fiadh. A Bronze Age palstave axe was found c. 40m from the enclosure. Camlin 2 (see No. 1597 above), a cluster of post- and stake-holes and four burnt mounds; Camlin 3 (see No. 1598 above), a known site, TN017–031, comprised a levelled enclosure, a possible ringfort, of which half lay within the road-take. In addition two burnt mounds, two cremation pits and numerous linear ditches were identified in the vicinity. Full excavation of all these sites was recommended.
