2011:069 - KILLALOE: Main Street (Shantraud), Clare

As part of the planning process, testing was required in advance of the construction of a dwelling house at a site on Main Street, Killaloe. Testing was restricted owing to the presence of derelict buildings on the site. It was possible, however, to open two trenches on the site.

The remains of a foundation wall were uncovered in one test trench. This belonged to a demised bakery building on the site. This was clearly indicated by the nature of its construction and alignment, matching that of the north-north-east-facing wall of the bakery building. There were patches of disturbance, comprising darker orange silty sand, which contained frequent inclusions of broken stone and occasional 19th- or 20th-century brick fragments, within the natural deposited soil in the test trench. The natural depositions occurred at high levels in both openings. Nothing of archaeological significance was found in either opening.