Excavation - miscellaneous

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. In Area 1 (east), a number of features (F58-F74 and F81-F88) were recovered and excavated including a ring-ditch (int. diam. 4m; ext. diam. 5.6m; D 0.24m). There was no stratigraphic relationship between it and the cremation burials. There were two internal pits, although these did not contain cremation burials.

See attached plan extract from monitoring report (Hurley 2003).

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 June 2020

References

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.

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 Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.