County: Limerick Site name: CROOM, SITE 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 30:134 Licence number: 97E0400
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 550797m, N 640394m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.512703, -8.724874
Excavated in advance of the Croom bypass project, this site consisted of a circular raised area enclosed by a slight ring-shaped depression. A geophysical survey carried out in advance of excavation revealed that it was enclosed by a circular ditch with a break in one side, presumably representing the entrance, and there appeared to be a further circular enclosure adjoining it, and a linear feature running eastwards.
The first cutting exposed a section through the ditch. Another cutting, in the centre of the enclosed area, revealed a series of five postholes. A third cutting investigated the linear feature shown by the geophysical survey, but no features were found here. There were no finds, apart from some modern material from the first cutting.
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