Souterrain

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on the grounds of Castleoaks House Hotel, overlooking the River Shannon to W. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. An opening into a subsurface corbelled passage running W was discovered around 1987. Field subsequently developed as a pitch and putt course and precise location of underground passage is now unknown (O’Rahilly 2000). Site assessed as part of a proposed residential and hotel suite development in 2001 (Byrne 2001). Two phases of pre-development testing (2002) and a subsequent monitoring brief (2003) were carried out in the vicinity of the monument, yet nothing of archaeological significance was noted (Collins 2002; 2002; 2003). Area of monument now appears to have been developed as a housing estate which is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography taken 2011-13.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 18 June 2020

References

Byrne, M.E. 2001 Castleoaks, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. Proposed residential and hotel suite development archaeological assessment report. Unpublished report for client.

Collins, T. 2003 Report on archaeological monitoring at Castle Oaks Hotel, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. License No. 02E0435 ext. Unpublished report for planning purposes (LCC Ref. 00/2547), submitted to National Monuments Service, Dept. of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

O’Rahilly, C. 2000 Souterrain in lands at Castleoaks House Hotel, Stradbally, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report by Limerick County Archaeologist.