County: Limerick Site name: BALLYCLOGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0040
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology
Site type: Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 564158m, N 656643m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.659793, -8.529802
Test-trenching took place here before construction of the Southern Ring Road. The area investigated was a linear earthwork running in a north-south direction through poor-quality grassland. The first edition OS map records it as a roadway, but it is not marked on the second edition.
One trench was opened by hand, measuring 10m by 1m, across the earthwork, to ascertain the nature of the feature and to find out whether it was flanked by ditches.
The trenching proved that this earthwork was the original roadway of the first edition OS map. The finds, which included pottery sherds and a glass fragment, showed the feature to have a late 18th–early 19th century date, and it is therefore not archaeological in nature.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
