Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Kilfinnane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfinnane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.35885, -8.46348
- SMR number
- LI048-105001-
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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
This record is for an excavation (05E0703) by Julianna O’Donoghue, Eachtra Archaeological Projects. 'Monitoring and excavation works were undertaken in advance of a housing development at Kilfinnane, Co. Limerick. A pit was recorded while monitoring topsoil removal and subsequently excavated. It measured 1.13m north-east/south-west by 0.51m by 0.31m in depth and contained four fills. The cut was subrectangular in plan, had vertical sides and the base was inclined slightly towards the south-east. One of these fills included burnt bone, 55 sherds of Beaker and Middle Bronze Age pottery and one piece of struck flint. Two stake-holes truncated the bottom two fills of the pit. A sherd of pottery and flecks of cremated bone were found at the base of the pit.'
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.