County: Limerick Site name: GORTADROMA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:93 Licence number: 98E0467
Author: Paul Stevens for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 521967m, N 643246m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.534977, -9.150197
An archaeological assessment took place in October 1998 for a proposed extension to a landfill site at Gortadroma, Co. Limerick. The development lies south of the town of Foynes and the River Shannon. It was proposed to develop north of the current landfill in an area measuring 415m east-west x 360m, incorporating the site of a holy well. The holy well could not be found during the field inspection for an Environmental Impact Survey, so test-trenching within a 20m zone around the suggested location of the monument was recommended.
Four linear test-trenches were opened, 10m long, 2.5m wide and 0.3m–1m deep. The soil profile suggested that the area had been quarried of sand before disturbance by the current development. The assessment revealed no evidence of surviving archaeological deposits or features associated with the holy well. The suggested location of the well, marked on the 1st edition OS map, places the site within an area of the site already quarried before assessment.
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