1997:Ad5 - BALLYOURAGAN, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick Site name: BALLYOURAGAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 21:164 Licence number: 97E0406

Author: Christine Grant

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 550793m, N 642719m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.533598, -8.725277

This site in Ballyouragan townland was identified as a series of small earthen ‘banks’ that might indicate an enclosing element of some type. Geophysical survey highlighted the fact that none of the earthen ‘banks’ showed any sign of coincident underground features, but did indicate a number of other small underground features. Three cuttings were opened to investigate the various feature types.

No archaeological features were uncovered on this site. It would appear that the features indicated by the geophysical survey were natural and that the earthen ‘banks’ were the result of modern quarrying activity.

Balliny North, Fanore, Craggagh PO, Co. Clare