2004:0994 - COONAGH EAST, Limerick

The lower parts of brick kilns, built on estuarine clay adjacent to the River Shannon, were identified in testing. The kiln was heavily truncated but was characterised by linear ‘benches’ of bricks with charcoal-rich fuel between these rows. It is very likely that the kiln was associated with the later 18th/earlier 19th-century building boom in Limerick city. The kiln is part of a relict industrial landscape that includes further examples of kilns (A005/2010 and A005/2018, Nos 995 and 998, Excavations 2004), clay quarries (brick-holes) and river transport (pier and inlets for small craft). The site has been fully resolved.