County: Tipperary Site name: Kilcash
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS078-036 Licence number: 17E0370
Author: Niall Gregory
Site type: Possible prehistoric
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 632632m, N 627232m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.395650, -7.520520
Four test trenches were excavated on 3rd October within the footprint of a proposed house, septic tank and percolation area and driveway. This followed from preliminary work that took place in April and consisted of a visual amenity impact assessment and geophysical survey. There were no negative visual impacts In relation to the nearby archaeological sites (Kilcash church and graveyard and Kilcash castle). The geophysical survey identified small locations of potential archaeology on the site. As a consequence some minor elements of the proposed development, such as herbaceous screening, part of the driveway and percolation area, were relocated.
The test excavation was set within the footprints of the proposed development as well as to identify the mpacted upon potential archaeology. This was revealed as a 0.005m deep spread of fire-reddened soil of some 0.4m by 0.4m on the surface of the natural subsoil. Any hand cleaning of its surface caused it to dissipate due to it comprising such a thin soil lens. All trenches achieved natural subsoil conditions at 0.25-0.35m beneath the sod layer. It consisted of yellow sandy silt with small decayed stone inclusions. The intervening stratigraphy consisted of pale brown topsoil throughout.
Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
