County: Limerick Site name: BALLYSIMON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0487
Author: Fiona Rooney, Archaeological Consultancy, in conjunction with Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 561432m, N 655568m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.649938, -8.569960
Funded by Limerick County Council, this work involved the investigation of a number of possible sites in advance of the Limerick Southern Ring Road. This site was first identified by Celie O Rahilly during the course of fieldwork for the impact assessment for the road. The area was interpreted as having a series of possible cultivation ridges to the north of the church and graveyard at Ballysimon.
From a study of the aerial photographs a possible D-shaped enclosure was identified. Four trenches were excavated, and in two of these the remains of a ditch were revealed, which was 3.5m wide and 1.4m deep. Finds included one fragment of medieval pottery and a fragment of lead, possibly part of a lead mount.
Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway
