County: Tipperary Site name: Kickham Barracks, Clonmore South, Clonmel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0104 ext.
Author: David Bayley
Site type: Post-medieval, military
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 602765m, N 622690m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.355786, -7.959410
Monitoring of groundworks was undertaken intermittently at Kickham Barracks between August 2021 and October 2021. Monitoring follows an earlier programme of monitoring of groundworks for a new car park at Davis Road, which was completed in 2020 by the licensee (20E0104).
Monitoring revealed features associated with the military past of the Barracks. Mortared limestone walls were identified in the Central Plaza and the New Street and Park areas of the site which are believed to be the remains of the original infantry barracks as seen on the first edition OS map (1839-41). A trench in the southeast of the site revealed a large quantity of animal bone which suggested that this is the location of the buried remains of army dogs such as regimental mascots. A Victorian culvert was identified in the northeast of the development site beneath a stone wall and later concrete wall. While these features offer an insight into the military past of Kickham Barracks they are not considered to be of archaeological significance, therefore, no further mitigation is deemed necessary.
c/o IAC Archaeology, Unit G1 Network Enterprise Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
