County: Limerick Site name: BALLYSIMON II
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:70 Licence number: 98E0485
Author: Tracy Collins, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 561432m, N 655568m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.649938, -8.569960
This site was identified in the Environmental Impact Survey of the Limerick Southern Ring Road (1994) as a possible circular enclosure, on the right bank of the River Groody. Two hand-dug test-trenches were opened to investigate it.
Trench A, 7m x 1.5m, was cut in a north-south direction to ascertain whether there was an enclosing element around the enclosure. It lay in the south-western quadrant of the site. Trench B, 6m x 1m, was cut in a north-east to south-west direction in the north-eastern quadrant of the site, to investigate the nature of the enclosure and to reveal any enclosing element.
The test-trenching concluded that the site was of no archaeological significance and may have been naturally created from the flooding waters of the adjacent river. Finds were two fragments of clear bottle glass and one sherd of modern willow pattern pottery, both from the topsoil of Trench A.
1 Ardara, Fairies Cross, Tralee, Co. Kerry
