County: Limerick Site name: LIMERICK: Little Gerard Griffin Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:17 Licence number: 96E0134
Author: Celie O Rahilly, Planning Dept., Limerick Corporation
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 558359m, N 657043m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.662973, -8.615562
This site is located immediately south-west of, i.e. outside, an extant portion of the town wall, to the east of the Mungret Gate, within the Irishtown. Six cuttings were opened.
The only material of a possible archaeological nature was noted in Cuttings 1 and 3. This consisted of a large pit at the western end of Cutting 1 and the northern end of Cutting 3. The fill was a dark clay containing animal bone, shell, one sherd of tin-glazed earthenware and one sherd of red earthenware, both possibly of late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century date. Elsewhere on the site, natural clay underlay rubble and there was evidence for a cellar fronting westwards onto Cam Market Row.
The foundations for the eastern block, where the possible pit was located, were piled and the strip trenches for the western block were monitored.
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