2017:371 - Town Parks, Ormond Castle, Tipperary South, Tipperary

The survey was undertaken over ground that had seen substantial amounts of recent mechanical manipulation including a network of trenches for drainage and electrical services. The results of both the resistivity and magnetometry surveys reflect this. The resistivity survey picked up two anomalies of resistance in linear sequences. One may indicate a modern service trench while the other is possibly remains of a wall extending in line with the east wall from the north east corner. The magnetometry survey picked up responses in line with fired clay in various locations as well as two trends – one which may be an external ditch to the existing east wall and continuing north outside the removed wall, the other a relatively quiet area which may be a deposition of aggregate that has a magnetic signature different from the surrounding parent material.

Shanarc Archaeology, Unit 39a, Hebron Business Park, Kilkenny, Ireland