1996:034 - OWENOGARNEY RIVER, Sixmilebridge, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: OWENOGARNEY RIVER, Sixmilebridge

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0292

Author: Cia McConway, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 547231m, N 665483m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.737858, -8.781397

A small-scale excavation was carried out on the west bank of the Owenogarney River following the discovery of substantial timbers projecting into the water. The results of a previous site assessment suggested that the timbers might form part of a formal wooden structure, and the fact that they were dendrochronologically dated to the late ninth/early tenth century added significance. The proposed works, which involved widening the river and therefore lowering the mean water-level, threatened the site. In light of this threat it was decided to carry out a small excavation from 2 to 4 October 1996.

The excavation revealed these timbers to be unworked tree trunks, tree roots and a root bowl lying along the river edge. With the benefit of further excavation it was revealed that they did not constitute any formal wooden structure.

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