County: Limerick Site name: FANNINGSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 21:159 Licence number: 97E0408
Author: Colin D. Gracie, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 558079m, N 647326m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.575621, -8.618469
Two trial-trenches were opened at this site, a circular mound 22m in diameter. One trench, dug across the sloping bank, revealed an infilled ditch 3.6m wide and 1.2m deep. The second trench, in the interior, revealed a gravel surface of small stones upon which was found a copper-alloy dress-pin. The pin, 80mm long and 4mm in diameter, had no decoration and a simple nail head. It has been dated to the 12th–13th century.
It has yet to be decided if further excavation will take place.
8 Abbeydale Close, Lucan, Co. Dublin
