2019:211 - Gordon Street, Clonmel, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: Gordon Street, Clonmel

Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS083-019--- (historic town), TS083-019049- (town defences) Licence number: E005082; C000899

Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd

Site type: Medieval town defences

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 620027m, N 622420m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.353001, -7.706022

Five trenches were excavated across the site, which was proposed for a car park. The Town Wall was uncovered in Trench 1, located 0.4m below present ground level. It forms the foundation for a later (nineteenth-century) boundary wall. The town wall survived only as a well-built rubble foundation, 0.87m high and resting on limestone bedrock. Its width could not be ascertained. Only 0.3m of it was visible on the site, as the later wall was set back on top of it. No archaeological features were encountered in the other trenches.

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