County: Limerick Site name: BALLYSIMON IV
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0005
Author: Ken Hanley, for Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 561758m, N 655244m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.647049, -8.565106
This site was identified by Celie O Rahilly (Senior Archaeologist, Limerick Corporation) during field-walking, as part of an environmental impact statement on the proposed Limerick Southern Ring Road from Adare to Annacotty. The site consisted of two conjoined circular depressions in the townland of Ballysimon, 4km south-east of Limerick City.
The first depression measured 18m x 18m, and the second measured 15m x 15m. Two test-trenches were excavated by hand. Test-trench 1 measured 1m by 7m and ran in a north-south direction, from the outer area of the more northerly depression, down towards its centre. Test-trench 2 measured 1m by 4m and ran in a north-south direction, across the outer area of the more southerly depression. The test-trenches failed to reveal any deposits, features or finds of archaeological interest. The depressions may have been the result of localised quarrying in the 18th or 19th century.
44 Eaton Heights, Cobh, Co. Cork
