Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Part of the same complex of features as LI006-091---- excavated prior to the construction of the M7 National Road. Thirteen features were initially identified during archaeological testing (licence 00E0854) of the Limerick Southern Ring Road Project by Avril Hayes (Hayes 2001, 758). The features comprised of isolated circular deposits or pits and one possible complex (Coyne & Hayes 2001, 28-29). Excavated by Hayes under an extension to licence 00E0854 (Hayes 2003, 806) the results were summarised as ‘ Many of the features excavated were probably naturally occurring and the remaining features were either circular or irregular in shape. No datable artefacts were recovered during the excavation’ (www.excavations.ie 2001; 758, 806).

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 17 June 2020

References

Coyne, F. and Hayes, A. 2001 Interim Report 2 on Archaeological Test Trenching of potential archaeological sites found during pre-construction ploughing of the proposed Limerick Southern Ring Road, Contract 1. Unpublished report (Licences Nos. 01E0449, 00E0849, 00E0850, 00E0851 & 00E0854) submitted by Aegis Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of Limerick City Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.

Hayes, A. 2001 Archaeological excavation of sites at Garraun, Garryglass and Towlerton, Co. Limerick found on the Limerick Southern Ring Road archaeological monitoring project. Unpublished report (Licences Nos. 00E0850, 00E0851 & 00E0854) submitted by Aegis Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of Limerick City Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.

Hayes, A. 2003 Towlerton,Garryglass,Garraun, Co. Limerick. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245 (No. 806). Bray.