County: Tipperary Site name: Ballyquirk townland
Sites and Monuments Record No.: Vicinity of TN004-030----, Licence number: 14E0456
Author: Frank coyne
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 591143m, N 701981m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.068379, -8.132156
The site is of a slatted shed was located adjacent to a Protected Structure, known as Ballyquirk Castle (S69) , and also approximately 200m to the south of a Recorded Monument TN004-030----, castle/tower house, also known as Ballyquirk castle. The subject site was a green field site prior to construction. It was bounded by farm outbuildings and a farmyard along its western half and fields elsewhere.
The stratigraphy consisted of the topsoil, which was a mid brown clay silt with an average depth of 0.25-0.3 (min 0.09m at west and max 0.42 centrally), located on top of a mid orange clay with occasional various sized rounded stones (in one or two locations boulders did appear indicating the presence of the bedrock close to the stripped level).
Nothing of an archaeological nature was encountered during the monitoring.
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