2025:173 - 18 Dominic Street, Cashel, Tipperary

The site involved monitoring of single-storey extension to a 1950’s two-storey semi-detached house within 60m of the Dominician Abbey (TS061-025007). The house formed part of a row of council houses built in the 1950s as single development. Archaeological monitoring found the location of the extension received imported garden soil to a depth of 1.15m. This soil horizon contained 14th-century floor tile fragments, a possible contemporary roof tile, mixed with a 19th-century candle holder and 20th-century crockrey and bottles and glass.

It was surmised that the 1950s development caused the soil to be stripped off the site at that time for the entire development, stockpiled – causing the mixed material from different periods, and then reintroduced as gardens during completion works. This is substantiated with the presence of 20th-century interdictions into the the underlying natural subsoil – two drainage sumps and a drainage ditch filled with small to medium quarried stone.