County: Clare Site name: BALLYCASEY MORE, SITE 44
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0574
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley.
Site type: Field system
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 542025m, N 662904m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.714139, -8.858037
The site was on the route of an access road connected with the Newmarket-on-Fergus bypass. It was identified as a complex of earthworks during field-walking. It was an area surrounded on three sides by marsh, and a possible motte and bailey stand beside the affected area.
A preliminary investigation was carried out, consisting of four cuttings. The first two cuttings crossed linear earthworks. One was found to be a denuded bank with a V-sectioned fosse 1m deep running alongside it, now filled with stones. The other was found to be the base of a stone wall 1.2m thick.
The other two cuttings were to investigate a possible rectangular structure. A cutting through the 'interior' revealed a natural gravel surface with no sign of habitation. A narrow slit-trench through the north 'wall' showed it to be similar to the wall mentioned above, probably another field wall.
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