House - 16th/17th century

The National Monuments Service's description

At the rear of 1 Wolfe Tone Street and visible in the yard of 2 West Gate, at the N end of the E wall of the yard. A list of holdings and occupants of West Gate Lane/Street drawn up during the settlement of 1666 mentions over a dozen slated and thatched houses, some of them 'waste' and classified as tenements (Burke 1907, 260). A length of roughly coursed sandstone rubble walling (H c. 4m), extends westward beyond the S wall of 1 Wolfe Tone Street for a short distance. Within this wall, at ground-floor level, there is a blocked elliptical-headed window (dims. 0.8m H x 0.25m Wth) with punch-dressed chamfered surrounds. This appears to be all that remains above ground of a late 16th/early 17th-century building which fronted onto Wolfe Tone Street, though fabric from the building may be incorporated in 1 and 2 Wolfe Tone Street. (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993, 74-5).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 December 2012

References

Farrelly, J. and FitzPatrick, E. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Tipperary (South Riding) (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Burke, Rev. W. P. 1907 History of Clonmel. The Clonmel Library Committee.