2017:032 - CARRICK-ON-SUIR: Town Wall Street, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: CARRICK-ON-SUIR: Town Wall Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS085:004
Licence number: C000727; E004648
Author: Mary Henry
Author/Organisation Address: 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 639923m, N 621892m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.347168, -7.414042
Monitoring was undertaken of footpath renewal works along a section of Town Wall Street, Carrick-on-Suir. Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District undertook the replacement of a section of a footpath along a length of the south side of Town Wall Street. The purpose of the works was to replace a damaged section of footpath with new paving. As the works were located within the immediate vicinity of the medieval town defences—a National Monument—it was necessary to obtain a Ministerial Consent. The line of the medieval town defences extends along Town Wall Street.
The works entailed the removal of the damaged concrete footpath for a total length of 33.4m along the south side of Town Wall Street. Excavations were kept very shallow, no more than removing the existing footpath and very limited sub-surface ground works.
No archaeological features, and in particular no trace of the town defences, were uncovered. Given the shallowness of the works this was not unexpected.