County: Clare Site name: ENNIS: Abbey
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 33:82 Licence number: —
Author: Celie O Rahilly, c/o Planning Dept, Limerick Corporation, Limerick.
Site type: Religious house - Franciscan friars
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 533802m, N 677600m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.845262, -8.982681
Three openings were made in a west-east line across the site, which was located immediately south of the Franciscan Abbey graveyard. Below between 0.4m (Cut 1 to west) and 1.4m (Cut 2) of modern fill was a black silty layer which varied in thickness from lm (Cut 1) to 0.3m (Cut 2). This contained animal bones and wood/wattle fragments (Cut 2 only). In Cut 3, to the east, where 0.8m of modern fill overlay the same black silty layer (0.6m thick), a single sherd of post-medieval brownware was recovered.
