County: Limerick Site name: LIMERICK: Clancy's Strand
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:19 Licence number: 98E0578
Author: Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 557388m, N 657558m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.667520, -8.629975
Test excavation was carried out near the site of a medieval/post-medieval mill. The site is indicated on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but is not marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions. The mill is illustrated at the western edge of Curragour Falls on Phillips's map of 1685.
A single test-trench was opened at the manhole shaft on Clancy's Strand. It was 10m long and revealed a 19th-century soil profile over natural. The deposits were interpreted as ground reclamation for the construction of the road adjacent to the River Shannon. No walls or other archaeological indicators suggesting the presence of a structure were found during the assessment. Archaeological monitoring is to be carried out during the construction phase of the project.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
