Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Kilbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.65421, -8.56295
- SMR number
- LI005-088003-
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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 a gentle SSW-facing slope, in pasture, on the N side of Schoolhouse Road, Castletroy. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Flor Hurley in 2003 during monitoring (License No. 03E1382) for a housing scheme known as Glantan and excavated (License No. 03E1717) by Niamh O’Callaghan later in 2003. Situated c. 15m to SW of flat cemetery (F85-F88) (LI005-088002-). A number of features were excavated (F12-F20) and consisted of nine small features all < 1m in maximum dimensions. They included one probable cremation containing charcoal and burnt bone, 7 small spreads all including charcoal and one linear feature containing a clayey silt.
See attached plan extract from monitoring report (Hurley 2003).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 June 2020
References
Hurley, F. 2003 Archaeological monitoring at Kilbane, Castletroy, Co. Limerick. License no. 03E1382. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
O’Callaghan, N. 2006 Kilbane, Castletroy; Bronze Age Landscape. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 309, No. 1150. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
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- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.