2017:182 - CASHEL: St. Patrick's Rock, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary

Site name: CASHEL: St. Patrick's Rock

Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS061-025

Licence number: Unlicensed Monitoring

Author: Niall Gregory

Author/Organisation Address: Dunburbeg, Clonmel road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 607386m, N 640980m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.520142, -7.891155

Archaeological monitoring occurred on 26th January, of removal of 160m length of 19th century field bank. It was located some 170m from the Rock of Cashel. The bank measured circa 1m in height and 1.4m in width. It was composed of earth and stone and had hawthorn roots and stumps. No archaeology was found.