County: Tipperary Site name: Riverrun House, Cornamult, Terryglass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0421 ext.
Author: Brenda O’Meara, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 586468m, N 699754m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.048274, -8.201814
Monitoring was carried out as a condition of a grant of planning permission at a site in Terryglass village. The site is located on the southern side of the village adjacent to Riverrun House, in the townland of Cornamult. The site is positioned on the edge of the designated zone of archaeological potential of Terryglass and on the edge of a remnant monastic enclosure (TN006–003).
Work carried out previously to the north of this development revealed a large curvilinear ditch feature within the footprint of a development of three holiday cottages. Two phases of monitoring were carried out in 1998, by Ken Hanley in September (Excavations 1998, No. 623, 98E0421) and by Paul Stevens in November (Excavations 1998, No. 624, 98E0421 ext.). All exposed features were protected and preserved in situ.
Monitoring of this new development was carried out in September 2007 under an extension to an existing licence. No archaeological material/features were recorded. The development had no impact on archaeological material revealed immediately to the north-west during monitoring in 1998.
No evidence associated with the monastic enclosure running along the south-east side of the site was revealed. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
