County: Limerick Site name: BALLYSIMON III, AR23
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:42 Licence number: 98E0486
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 557353m, N 657613m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.668017, -8.630503
This site was investigated as part of pre-development testing in advance of the Limerick Southern Ring Road. Four trenches were inserted to ascertain whether an earlier building, most likely a mill, had stood on the site.
The first trench showed that a stretch of walling along the right bank of the Groody River probably functioned as a revetting wall, holding back the high ground to the north. Finds of pottery and glass from this trench showed that the wall was constructed in relatively modern times. The remaining trenches did not reveal an earlier structure, the natural boulder clay being encountered immediately below the topsoil. It is possible that this site was the headrace for Ballysimon mill, which lies further to the north-east.
24 Castle Court, Clancy Strand, Limerick
