County: Tipperary Site name: Ballybeg and Aghnameadle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0599 ext.
Author: Niall Gregory
Site type: Possible early medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 601472m, N 676747m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.841659, -7.978151
The client, Seamus Ryan Sand and Gravel Ltd, are seeking permission for extension of a sand and gravel quarry at Ballybeg, Toomevara, Co, Tipperary. The development will consist of extension of the quarry and for continued use of the site entrance, access laneway, weighbridge, maintenance shed, settlement lagoons, site office, toilet, plant and machinery and ancillary works. The extension area will be 13.818ha in lands to the northÂ-west of the existing quarry at Ballybeg and Aghnameadle. Condition No. 1 of Further Information Required identified a requirement for Geophysical Survey and Archaeological Test Excavation.
Test excavation took place between 16 and 20 September 2021; three features were identified as small hearths or kilns of an archaeological pedigree. Metalworking residue was extracted from one of the hearth/kilns.
Archaeological monitoring was set to commence in 2022 under a phased approach as the quarry expanded over a period of five years. However, planning and works schedule delays have caused the monitoring to be postponed until 2023.
Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
