2021:283 - Bhoherclogh (Lowergate Square), Cashel, Tipperary

Tipperary County Council is undertaking upgrading works on Lowergate Square, in Cashel. The works requiring ground works included 5 lighting posts/stands, connected by 50mm ESB ducts. The project proposal entailed ducts requiring box trench excavation of up to 0.9m in depth and over a length of c. 130m. Other work will entail some resetting of kerbing requiring excavation up to 0.3m and three foundation excavations for yield signs. The foundations will be c. 0.4 by 0.4m and 0.5m in depth. The archaeological licence was extended to 2021 to cover its continuation from 2020, and initial prospective works in 2019. This continuation involved street realignment, footpath replacement and resetting of kerbing.
The 2021 works commenced on 18 March and were completed by 14 June 2021. The remains of a medieval cobbled street surface of 2m in length by 0.4m in width was uncovered abutting a medieval building footing, over which Boyle Sports is situated (ITM 607405 640512). This surface extended to the south side of Boyle Sports but was more sporadically truncated in nature. A lens of grey silty clay as originally organic waste overlay the street surface. Metalworking waste (furnace bloom) was obtained from this lens and was dated to the 15th century AD. An overlying lens of building debris contained clay pipe bowl and stems that dated to the 17th century AD.

Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary