2024:700 - Main Street, Templemore, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: Main Street, Templemore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TN029-062----
Licence number: Unlicensed Monitoring
Author: Seán Shanahan & Graeme Laidlaw; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 39a, Hebron Business Park, Hebron Road, Kilkenny
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 611193m, N 671694m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.796130, -7.834032
Unlicensed archaeological monitoring was carried out from 3–4 December 2024, in relation to the change of use of a disused public house into a crèche on Main Street (N62), Templemore, Co. Tipperary.
The site is located within the Zone of Notification associated with the historic town of Templemore, TN029-062—-.
Monitoring was focused on groundwork at the former pub building, in the rear extension area, and in the rear yard area between the former pub building and the location of an existing shed. Monitoring was carried out of the breaking of the floor slab, followed by the removal of the concrete and the underlying sub-floor rubble layer in the rear part of the building. The southern wall of the pub was previously demolished from the ground floor to the second floor allowing access for the mini digger to break the floor slab. An L-shaped concrete pad was previously poured to allow a steel frame connected to the south extension of the building to be put in place. This frame was used to support the upper floors of the building. Stripping in the narrow yard space to the rear of the existing building exposed an orange brown, compact clayey silty subsoil.
Excavation of a raft foundation trench to allow for the building extension as well as a lift shaft for the floors of the existing structure was monitored. The foundation trench measured 1m in width by 0.65m in depth. The subsoil material comprised an orange brown, compact clayey silt.
Further trench excavation was monitored in the rear yard; the trench was positioned centrally to the wider site, and extended from the location of an existing shed in a north-west direction towards the site boundary wall extending along the west side of the site. The trench measured 1m in width by 0.6m in depth. It followed the line of the shed, turned west for 2m, before heading north-northwest for an additional 9m. The stratigraphy comprised the same orange brown, compact clayey silty subsoil found throughout the entire area of the site.
No archaeological finds, features or deposits were identified during any of the monitored works.
