County: Limerick Site name: SKEHACREGGAUN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 013:009 (part of) Licence number: —
Author: Celie O Rahilly, c/o Planning Dept, Limerick Corporation
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 554360m, N 653144m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.627609, -8.674138
The assessment work was done in 3 stages and for different reasons. The 1st was on the east side of the stream, in advance of a pumping station for Limerick County Council. The 2nd was to the west of the stream, in advance of a proposed Cerebral Palsy Workshop (see below), and the 3rd was to the east of the stream in advance of the relocated Workshop.
Nothing of archaeological interest was noted to the east of the stream which appears to have acted as a possible boundary because to the west of it several surface features were noted as well as deposits below the surface. There is a trackway extending along the western field boundary aligned north-south. This runs northwards from the road, on the opposite side of which is Mungret Abbey, to a site marked Templemungret. To the east of the track is a well, Toberpatrick. In the area bounded by the stream (to the east and north), the track (to the west) and the road, (to the south), there are linear undulations. A single cut was made in which pits, a possible stone feature, charcoal and bone were noted. Owing to their presence, although no datable finds were recovered, the work stopped and the site of the proposed workshop was relocated to the east of the stream to avoid full-scale excavation.
It is probable in view of the evidence that the section of the field to the west of the stream was part of the monastic settlement at Mungret.
