2007:1697 - KILSHEELAN, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: KILSHEELAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS084–002
Licence number: 07E0430
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Site type: Milling complex
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 628371m, N 623415m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.361582, -7.583456
Three test-trenches were opened on the imprint of a houses site in the village of Kilsheelan. The site is 50m east of a ruined medieval church and graveyard and beside the north bank of the River Suir. Evidence emerged for the remains of a building within the trenches. Two distinct walls and a possible floor were uncovered. It is considered these were components of a mill as indicated on the first-edition OS map of 1840. The composition and formation of the stratigraphy revealed this building has being comprehensively demolished in situ, thus accounting for the levels of infill in the trench, with only a couple of walls and part of a floor surviving demolition.