2007:1705 - MORTLESTOWN, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: MORTLESTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS062–011
Licence number: 07E0143
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 622346m, N 643239m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.540040, -7.670578
Four trenches were opened on the imprint of proposed farm buildings at Mortlestown townland. A well-preserved tower-house survives on the edge of the farmyard. No archaeological features or remains were uncovered in any of the test-trenches opened. Apart from plough furrows, two features were revealed during testing. The first consisted of a very modern drainage ditch. Revealed at the intersection of two of the trenches was a second earlier land drain.