2013:157 - William Street, Cashel, Tipperary

Testing was undertaken at a small site along the west side of William Street, Cashel. William Street, located in the western part of the medieval walled town, is a narrow street which links Main Street to John Street. The development site was located c. 75m to the east of the town wall. At the time of testing the site was a vacant plot but was formerly occupied by a building.

Two test trenches were opened within the development site. In total four features were discovered: a wall and ditch in one trench whilst a cobbled surface and wall stub was present in the second opening. The ditch was considered to be modern, based on the fact that both its fills predominantly consisted of deposits formed by modern aggregates. No dating evidence was found for the wall. However, it was located at the interface of two distinct underlying contexts: to its west is a re-deposited natural whilst to the east was a well worked garden soil. It was considered this feature was a boundary wall of unknown date, but was possibly 19th century. The cobbled surface was considered to be of 19^th-century date, both by the presence of a sherd of Victorian glass fragment and from their form. The wall stub found in the second opening, was built on this cobbled surface.

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