Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Ballygrennan (north Liberties By.),clonconane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrennan (north Liberties By.),clonconane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68058, -8.66200
- SMR number
- LI005-039----
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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
On low-lying pasture, in the angle of Cratloe Road and Galtee Avenue. Site of Castle Park castle (LI005-010----) lies c. 1km to NE. Shown as a cluster of dwellings either side of the road out of Limerick City on the Down Survey barony map of the North Liberties (Hib. Reg.). The name Red Gate is depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map, c. 65m to NW and may be of some significance (O’ Rahilly 1998). A pit and a burnt spread were uncovered from this area during archaeological monitoring (License No. 98E0321) for a development in 1998 (ibid). Area is now occupied by Clonile and Shanrath housing estates. Archaeological test trenching (License No. 04E0851) and monitoring of a site directly on the opposite side of the Cratloe Road, proved negative for archaeology (Brewer February 2004; Dunne July 2004).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 02/07/2018 and Down Survey barony map showing cluster of dwellings.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
References
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.
Brewer, A. 2004 Archaeological monitoring report at Clonconane, Caherdavin, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Dunne, L. 2004 Archaeological test excavation report at Clonconane, Caherdavin, Co. Limerick. License No 04E0851. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
O’Rahilly, C. 1998 Archaeological method statement: Assessment of archaeological potential at Ballygrennan, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Dúchas the Heritage Service, Dublin.
O’Rahilly, C. 1998 Archaeological report on Monitoring at Ballygrennan, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Dúchas the Heritage Service, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.