2007:1124 - KNOCKADERRY, Limerick
County: Limerick
Site name: KNOCKADERRY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI037–009
Licence number: 07E0179
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
Site type: Burial, Hut site and Field system
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 534564m, N 635448m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.466552, -8.963014
Test-trenching in advance of a proposed housing development located a cremation burial cemetery (21 pits) and a circular hut site (2m diameter). These features are very probably prehistoric in date. Linear features were also found and these may relate to early field systems.