County: Tipperary Site name: Clonbeg Bridge Replacement, Newtown and Mackanagh Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0523 & 20R0257
Author: Graham Hull
Site type: Non archaeological
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 587205m, N 629430m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.416226, -8.188087
Monitoring, including the use of a metal detector, was carried out during repair works at Clonbeg Bridge, Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary, adjacent to a medieval church. The work consisting of the replacement of the bridge, reprofiling the river bank and cleaning the river bed from obstruction (dead trees and branches).
No archaeological material was revealed during monitoring and the only metal items identified during the metal detector survey were clearly modern.
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