2016:378 - TIPPERARY: Abbey CBS, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: TIPPERARY: Abbey CBS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS067-004
Licence number: 16E0376
Author: Rob O'Hara, Archer Heritage Planning
Author/Organisation Address: 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 589143m, N 635605m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.471770, -8.159799
An assessment was undertaken at the Abbey CBS secondary school to the south of Tipperary Town in County Tipperary on a c. 1.14ha site in Collegeland townland. The development consisted of a Sports Hall in the area of the existing basketball/tennis courts to the rear of the school. The proposed Sports Hall site is a tarmacadam yard area to the south-east of the school approximately 120m south of the site of the former Abbey (TS067:004).
A total of 2 trenches were mechanically excavated across the site under archaeological supervision. The upper levels of tarmac were c. 0.1–0.15m deep and overlay c. 1–1.5m of imported river gravel. This overlay the natural reddish brown sand. No archaeological features were recorded.