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. Situated c. 15m to SW of flat cemetery (F85-F88) (LI005-088002-). A total of 9 features were excavated (F75-79 and F92-93) including a large irregular-shaped feature (2.45m N-S; 2.13m E-W) containing burnt stone and charcoal and a large teardrop-shaped feature containing charcoal and fragments of burnt bone. There were also two circular-shaped and three roughly oval-shaped pits containing charcoal and two spreads one of which contained charcoal (Hurley 2003, 9-10).

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 Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.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