County: Tipperary Site name: Town Wall Street, Carrick-on-Suir
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS085:004 Licence number: C000727; E004648
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
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.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
