County: Tipperary Site name: 15–16 Market Street, Clonmel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS083–019 Licence number: 08E0008
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: Urban, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 620375m, N 622516m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353858, -7.700902
Testing was undertaken in advance of constructing a small commercial unit at a site located in the centre of Clonmel town, to the rear of Market Street. The site is within the zone of archaeological potential for Clonmel town. Two test-trenches were opened on the site. The upper stratigraphy comprised 19th- and 20th-century deposition within which a culvert was discovered. A well-constructed wall and flagstone floor were uncovered beneath the 19th/20th-century fill. This site was the location of the Shambles, which was built by 1803. It was likely that both the wall and flagstone floor were associated with this structure.
