Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
King'S Island,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- King'S Island,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.67051, -8.62323
- SMR number
- LI005-017121-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations carried out by Aegis Archaeology under licence No. 00E0661 identified the location of a burial ground associated with St Saviour's Dominican Priory (LI005-017047-). The results of these excavations were summarised as following; 'Eleven trenches were dug by machine and by hand in an area just south of the medieval Dominican priory, in advance of a proposed development. Five yielded archaeological material. Trenches 1 and 2 exposed the lower courses of the limestone town wall, while human remains were exposed in Trenches 2, 10 and 11. Only those in Trenches 2 and 11 were articulated, in situ and orientated in the usual east–west direction. At the northern end of Trench 10, the foundations of a wall were discovered, which were interpreted as the southern wall of the medieval church of the priory. This wall lay c. 8m from the extant northern wall of the church. The remainder of the trenches showed that the site had been disturbed in the past and the archaeological layers had been removed extensively' (www.excavations.ie).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.