Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballybronoge South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybronoge South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown.
- Coordinates
- 52.58111, -8.72132
- SMR number
- LI021-025003-
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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
Identified in the archaeological EIS for the Adare-Annacotty Road (N20) by O’Rahilly in 1990. Test excavations undertaken by Ken Hanley in 1991 to the NW of Killasragh Children’s Burial Ground (LI021-025002-) the results of which were summarised as following; ‘Two areas were opened (c. 9m x 8m and 3m sq.) to investigate an apparent trackway which ran through the burial ground complex. Three sherds were found giving a 13th/14th-century date. Evidence for pre-trackway activity was also found’ (www.excavations.ie 1991, Site No. 086).
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 July 2020
References
O'Rahilly, C. 1991 Archaeological report on Limerick to Adare Road. Unpublished report submitted to Limerick County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.