2022:393 - Lands at Brodeen and part of Garranacanty, Tipperary, Tipperary

The client, Pramukh Gogineni, is undertaking development of land namely: the construction of a mixed-use development comprising of a Nursing Home Facility with an associated assisted living facility and an independent Residential Development of 92 two-storey dwellings at Dundrum Road, Townland of Bradeen and part of Grarranacanty, Tipperary Town. The Nursing Home will accommodate 85 private resident suites and have an associated assisted living facility containing 26 apartments in a detached two-storey structure. The overall development will be accessed by a new vehicular and pedestrian access from the Dundrum Road/St Michael's Avenue roundabout, boundary treatments, hard and soft landscaping, private and public open spaces, internal roads and pedestrian walkways, all ancillary services and associated site development works above and below ground level all at a site of approximately 7.9 hectares. Condition No. 3 of the Planning Permission specifies a requirement for archaeological monitoring of all associated groundworks.
Monitoring for this first phase commenced on 13 July and concluded on 2 August 2022. This phase of the works entailed the development of 14 dwelling houses from the westernmost aspect of the site. The initial works consisted of monitoring of ten engineer’s test pits at ITMs 590153 636537; 590087 636488; 590147 636569. The holes achieved depths of 3m, were 5m long and 1.4m in width. There was a frequency of hard and soft landscaping across much of where the trial holes were excavated. There was frequent construction debris from former groundworks and previous construction activity, such as drainage, electric and telecom services and infrastructure. Some of this extended into the substrata and also caused loss of topsoil. The stratigraphy was found to be natural orange boulder clays, possibly redeposited, and geological deposits, mainly sand and gravel with occasional bedrock present.
This was followed with ground works in advance of the fourteen houses which consisted of mechanical surface stripping of soils and / or construction debris. This also involved breaking and removal of a sileage pit. It was found the eastern 2-3m of the construction area in its north-east quadrant and the northern few metres of the same quadrant retained original topsoil beneath previously deposited mounds of soil from 2000's construction works. The 0.2-0.3m of topsoil gave way to natural orange silty boulder clay.
No archaeology was encountered during this phase of the works. The second phase of the development is scheduled to take place in early 2023.

Dunburbeg, Clonmel Road, Cashel, Co. Tipperary