County: Limerick Site name: HOWMEDICA LINK ROAD, Ballycummin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0376
Author: Damian Finn, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 555013m, N 652370m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.620701, -8.664392
The Howmedica link road is 500m east of the N20 road and 250m south of the Raheen Industrial Estate. It was constructed as part of the infrastructure for the new Dell Computers European Manufacturing Facility (EMF 3). The road corridor is 30m wide and covers a distance of c. 550m.
The area is one of high archaeological potential. Four fulachta fiadh and a 19th-century trackway have been excavated by Noel Dunne in the surrounding area (see No. 483, Excavations 1999).
The only archaeological feature uncovered in the monitoring of the topsoil clearance was a 48m-long section of the trackway (SMR 13:151).
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