County: Tipperary Site name: POUND STREET, NEWPORT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0039
Author: Avril Hayes, Avril Hayes Archaeology, 2 Adelaide Terrace, Henry Street, Limerick.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 572551m, N 662324m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.711339, -8.406213
The site is located on the site of the former Whelan’s supermarket and is bounded by Pound Street to the south and the Small or Cully River to the north. It is located within the zone of potential for TN037–001, a bridge. Prior to testing, the remains of a late 18th-or early 19th-century cornmill or store building was noted along the riverbank at the north side of the site. Four trenches were excavated in advance of the construction of a mixed-use development. The trenches were excavated to the rear of the existing supermarket structure in yard and overgrown garden areas. They were dug to an average depth of 1m. Generally the stratigraphy consisted of a silt layer overlying a loose rubble layer. The natural subsoil layer was a mottled yellowish and pinkish-brown silty clay which sloped down to the river at the north. Some early modern walls and floor surfaces were encountered during the testing. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted in the trenches.
