County: Tipperary Site name: Clashganny West
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS088-032 Licence number: 19E0801
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 612891m, N 613402m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.272157, -7.811117
Archaeological monitoring of grounds works associated with the construction of a single house and ancillary site works was undertaken as part of granted planning permission. The site is located in the village of Newcastle, on a vacant plot bounded by a fast-flowing tributary of the River Suir.
These groundworks were monitored due to the development site being located at the southern edge of the zone of archaeological potential for a settlement cluster in Middlequarter townland. No archaeological features or deposits were identified.
A shallow topsoil strip/hardcore removal was initially undertaken as part of the preparatory works on and within the immediate environs of the two-storey house site. It became apparent that ground conditions on the site were not good with the necessity to reduce the site within the imprint of the house site by an additional 0.3m to 1.1m. These excavations entailed the removal of made-up ground/infill. Local information confirmed that material had been brought into the site from a building site on the opposite side of the public road. In addition, the local County Council had also used the site to deposit soil and stone rubble. It was not clear if the site was infilled deliberately to raise the flood level to protect it from the fast-flowing bordering river. Where apparent, original topsoil was revealed c. 0.45m below ground level in the north-west part of the site and up to 1m elsewhere (south and east sides). This dark grey brown topsoil overlaid a subsoil, with a maximum thickness of c. 0.2m, and overlaid the natural deposition.
17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
