County: Clare Site name: Tulla Road, Rosslevan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0841
Author: Kate Taylor
Site type: Non archaeological
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 535880m, N 678780m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.856116, -8.952081
Monitoring was conducted during construction of a residential development at on a 0.4ha plot on the south side of the Tulla Road, surrounded on all sites by residential development. Prior to commencement of the works, the site was overgrown with grass and scrub, with several large spoil heaps, presumably waste from previous neighbouring developments. Despite the dumping there was no evidence of significant ground disturbance and topsoil stripping was monitored, revealing nothing of archaeological significance.
Two east to west aligned stone walls were present on the site, representing former field boundaries. A wall across the centre of the site corresponds to a boundary shown on 19th- and early 20th-century maps as a field division. The wall was up to 1.1m high and tapered from a basal width of 0.9m to a width of 0.3m at the top. The wall was constructed of limestone pieces and was roughly faced on both sides with a rubble core. Within the southern end of the development site was another east to west aligned boundary that also corresponds with cartographic records. This was a far more substantial wall, at 1.4m high and a width of 1.4m at the base, narrowing slightly to 1.1m at the top. There were two rough faces and the wall core consisted of small limestone pieces. Heaped against the southern side of the wall were several piles of field clearance stones and it appeared that the wall itself was so substantial simply because it had been created from field clearance. Despite its size, there was no evidence to suggest that the boundary was especially significant.
TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
