2025:086 - ADARE: Adare Manor, Limerick

Monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of a transformer cabin and cabling trench connecting it with photovoltaic panels at Adare Manor, Adare, Co. Limerick was carried out. Natural was not exposed. An area was stripped of sod to a depth of between 0.2–0.3m and measured 11m by 4.5m with topsoil exposed and covered with aggregate. Subsequently, within the centre of this area, an east to west aligned 1.5m wide trench was excavated to a depth of c. 1–1.1m below present ground level.

Topsoil measuring between 0.5m to 0.65m was removed onto made ground (0.45m to 0.6m) which had inclusions of large stones, a metal pipe, red bricks and lumps of tarmac throughout. 

The main cable trench was excavated along the eastern boundary of the site. It measured 1-2m in width and was excavated to a depth of 0.6–1m, with each row of panels connected by a shallow and narrow, 0.4m wide and 0.2–0.35m deep trench. Modern rubbish, including plastic bottles, was noted in removed spoils. No archaeological features or finds were encountered.