County: Limerick Site name: Duntryleague (BGE)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Claire Walsh and Eoin Grogan
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 575855m, N 627849m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.401641, -8.354808
A curvilinear ditch 4.25m long, 80-95cm wide and 20-25cm deep. The fill was charcoal-flecked and contained abundant heat-shattered stones. There were no finds.
Roughly 1m from the eastern terminal of this feature was a large, rectangular pit 1.40m x 1.04m x 32cm. It had several layers of fill, the lowermost of which produced five sherds of very coarse undecorated pottery.
A spread of burnt earth and charcoal, covering an area 1m x 1.1m x 2cm deep, was found 80cm-1.8m east of these features. The compact and disturbed nature of this material suggests that it was spread as a result of agricultural activity and was probably derived from the pit.
The association of the curved trench and the pit is similar to features excavated on sites 45 and 36 (EXCAVATIONS, 1986).
Just 4m south-east of this site another isolated pit was revealed during trenching (no. 48, EXCAVATIONS, 1986).
5 St Catherine's Rd. Glenageary, Co. Dublin
