County: Offaly Site name: Clonminch
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E0181
Author: Tony Cummins for John Cronin & Associates
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 633841m, N 723059m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.256806, -7.492836
Test trenching at the site of a proposed distillery and warehouse complex at Clonminch, Tullamore was undertaken as part of an EIS for the development. This entailed the excavation of seventeen linear test trenches in the marginal green field area to be impacted by construction works. There are no recorded archaeological sites within 800m of the site boundary and no archaeological features were uncovered in the section of the Tullamore Bypass to the south of the site excavated by Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology (Excavations 2006, No. 1701, E2493). Test trenching indicated that the low-lying areas of the site had been extensively impacted by modern reclamation works and many field drains were uncovered in the subsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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