County: Limerick Site name: INCHMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0006
Author: Ken Hanley, for Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 560558m, N 654444m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.639775, -8.582739
This site was identified by Aegis Archaeology staff during fieldwork for an archaeological reconnoitre report, which detailed the rewalking of the route of the proposed Limerick Southern Ring Road from Adare to Annacotty. The site was a circular mound, measuring 45m in diameter, rising to a maximum height of 2m, in the townland of Inchmore, 4km south-east of Limerick City. No enclosing element, such as a bank or ditch, was identified. The site was not marked on the 1st edition OS map.
A single hand-dug test-trench, 1m by 16m, was inserted in a north-south direction, from the outer area of the mound towards its centre. No deposits, features or finds of archaeological interest were identified, suggesting that the mound was an entirely natural feature. Several finds of early modern/modern date were retrieved from the topsoil.
44 Eaton Heights, Cobh, Co. Cork
