2007:1731 - TINDERRY AND ROCKFOREST (Area 13), Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: TINDERRY AND ROCKFOREST (Area 13)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E003419
Author: Eoghan Moore, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Site type: Habitation site, Kiln - lime, Burnt mound and School
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 618689m, N 685419m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.919280, -7.722088
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, 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.
Area 13 ran from Chainage 29.200 to 30.500, through the townlands of Tinderry and Rockforest, Co. Tipperary. Works were completed in late April 2007.
Three potential new sites were identified as follows: Tinderry 2 (see No. 1733, Excavations 2007), a cluster of pits, hearths, stake-holes, possibly a prehistoric settlement; Rockforest 1, site of a limekiln; Rockforest 2 (see No. 1719, Excavations 2007), three burnt mounds and foundations of a 19th-century schoolhouse.
Full excavation of all these sites was recommended.