1991:090 - NEWCASTLE WEST: Maiden Street, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick

Site name: NEWCASTLE WEST: Maiden Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 036:067

Licence number: —

Author: Celie O Rahilly, Limerick Corporation

Author/Organisation Address: c/o Planning Dept., Limerick Corporation, City Hall, Limerick

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 527865m, N 633748m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.450434, -9.061211

Five cuttings were investigated along the Maiden St frontage. It was not possible to go any further back: the garden plots behind the cottages were stretching either below demolition rubble or were actually located at such a high level as to be inaccessible by the machine. It would appear that the ground for the cottages was levelled by cutting into the steep slope behind. In each of the cuts, natural deposits occurred below the demolition rubble. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted.