County: Kilkenny Site name: Garryricken
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KK030:028 Licence number: 17E0472
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 639441m, N 638139m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.493229, -7.419201
Testing was undertaken as part of granted planning permission to build a shed to house livestock with an underground slatted tank at a farm located at Garryricken, Callan. The farm is located c. 1.5km south-east of the Clonmel/Kilkenny road (N76), close to the Kilkenny/Tipperary county boundary. The new building was sited c. 40m to the north of a seventeenth-century house (Garryricken House).
Four test trenches were opened on the site. Testing confirmed that the upper 0.5-0.8m of the site had been raised/infilled with spoil from excavations undertaken 25 year previously and associated with the construction of adjoining modern farm buildings and laying of the cattle feeding yard. This infilling accounted for a part of the field - the north-western area - being higher than its remainder. The remains of an infilled drain was found in the south-west end of two test trenches whilst a series of cultivation furrows was found within another trench and extensive tree roots were exposed in another opening. Nothing was found on the site that could be associated with the seventeenth-century house.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
