2022:386 - Templeshannon (St Senan’s Primary School), Enniscorthy, Tipperary

The client, the Board of Management of St Senan's Primary School, undertook extension and alterations to school, to include 12 temporary classrooms, realignment and extension of boundary walls and railings, a new set down with access and staff car park.
The site footprint encompasses c. 8300m² (c. 110m north-sout x 105m). The work entails surface preparation of a greenfield area forming some 60% to 65% of the site area in its northern aspect and surface preparation of tarmac area on the remaining southern aspect.
Archaeological monitoring of the initial phase took place between 2 and 8 November 2021; no archaeology was encountered. A subsequent phase of monitoring took place between 31 January and 23 February 2022. This work consisted of box trench excavation to accommodate water mains and electricity ducts. The water mains section measured c. 185m. It entailed topsoil stripping a 2.4m to 2.6m-wide trench line that was stepped to a c. 1-1.2m-wide trench and of 1.8-1.9m in overall depth. The stratigraphy was found to be consistent throughout and was 0.2–0.25m topsoil onto dark yellow compact silty sand (natural subsoil) for remainder. Some 20th-century material was found. This is considered as a residue of landscaping of public green area as part of the adjacent housing development dating to end of the 20th or start of the 21st century. The electricity ducts paralleled the water mains line, but was at a shallowed depth of c. 0.9m.
No archaeology was encountered.

Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary