County: Carlow Site name: Tullow Street, Carlow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0436
Author: Seán Shanahan & Marion Sutton, Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Urban, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 672211m, N 676670m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.836132, -6.928270
Monitoring and excavation in association with the water mains rehabilitation work on Tullow Street, Carlow, identified a network of seven post-medieval stone-lined drains or culverts in the street carriageway. The finds retrieved were few, consisting of one glass bottle fragment, two glass drinking vessel fragments, one cream stoneware jar with vertical ribbing and one piece of charred worked wood. The finds recovered would suggest the drains/culverts are 19th century in origin with evidence of subsequent alteration or disturbance as a result of on-going maintenance of drainage infrastructure. The identification of drains/culverts is in line with previous excavations undertaken in Carlow, in particular the work undertaken in relation to the Carlow Main Drainage Scheme. During the latter scheme, a network of 18th- or early 19th-century stone drains or sewers were recorded in many of the streets monitored.
Apart from the post-medieval stone culverts intersecting Tullow Street, no features, deposits or finds of archaeological significance were identified during the course of the water main rehabilitation works on Tullow Street, Carlow.
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