Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

On a NW-facing slope, in pasture, c. 90m to E of a stream. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Tracy Collins in 2006 during test trenching prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated (NRA Reg. No. E2320) in the same year by Aidan Harte as part of Gardenhill Site 1 (Harte 2009, 325). Three pits were located c. 35m to E of the cremation pit (LI006-098001-). One of these was a substantial oval-shaped pit (1.8m N-S; D 0.52m), which contained a single brown fill. A second pit (covered by a stone lintel) and four possible post-holes were spread sparsely across the area to NE. Two further pits at the extreme NE were found to be coeval yet no clear function could be deciphered from their fills. All finds from this area suggest a post-medieval date.

See attached location plan from excavation report.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 1 July 2020

References

Harte, A. 2009 Gardenhill; Cremation and pits. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 325, No. 1262. Bray. Wordwell.