County: Tipperary Site name: KILSHEELAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS084–002 Licence number: 09E0224
Author: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology, 1 The Spires, Dean Street, Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 628371m, N 623415m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.361582, -7.583456
Monitoring was undertaken of groundworks associated with the construction of a single-house development at Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary. The development site is within and adjoining the area of archaeological constraint TS084–002 (settlement). The site lay to the north of the village on the Fethard road and to the south-west of a large new housing development, where pits containing Neolithic pottery were uncovered by Julianna O’Donoghue, Eachtra, in 2005 (Excavations 2005, No. 1458, 05E1391). Kilsheelan originated as a borough within the medieval cantred of Iffowyn (Iffa) and the manor of Kilsheelan. The topsoil-strip for the development was monitored and nothing of archaeological interest was noted.
