County: Tipperary Site name: Cloran Old
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS071-011 Licence number: 19E0260
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 626528m, N 634752m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.463567, -7.609618
As part of the planning permission process, a programme of archaeological testing was undertaken on the site of a dwelling house, driveway and associated site works at Old Cloran. Located 2km south-west of the small village of Cloneen, the site is c. 100m to the north-west of a church site, graveyard, holy tree, stone sculpture, holy stone and bullaun stone.
Four test trenches were opened on the areas of greatest disturbance. No archaeological features were found in any of the trenches opened. Weathered rock/bedrock was exposed at shallow levels in two trenches. Both of these trenches were sited on the field's ridge whilst no bedrock was exposed in the other two trenches which were sited on either side of the ridge. Interestingly, the origin of the townland name, Cloran Old, is derived from the Irish An Cloichreán which means 'stony place'.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
