County: Tipperary Site name: Kilcoolyabbey
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS043–022 Licence number: 08E0598
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: Modern
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 629397m, N 657590m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.668687, -7.565373
Five test-trenches were opened on the imprint of a house site in Kilcoolyabbey townland close to the Tipperary/Kilkenny county border. The site borders Kilcoolyabbey Demesne and is c. 1.25km north-east of Kilcooly Abbey, a Cistercian foundation dating to 1200. The proposed house site is located to the south of an enclosure, which is sited on the opposite side of the public road.
In three test-trenches the same feature was uncovered which had the semblance of a removed field boundary and crossed three of the trenches. An examination of the second-edition OS map (1905) indicates there were a number of field boundaries within this field, all of which have since been removed. Two features were uncovered in another test-trench. Both were modern: one a land drain and the other a modern circular cut, perhaps to facilitate the burial of a small animal.
