County: Limerick Site name: KILRUSH CHURCH, Limerick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 5:9 Licence number: 98E0579
Author: Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 555671m, N 656858m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.661097, -8.655269
Test excavation was carried out before the construction of the Northern Lower Interceptor Sewer pipeline at Kilrush Church. The church site is in Derravoher townland off the North Circular Road within Limerick's Municipal Boundary and dates from the Early Christian period. It consists of a fine, pre-Romanesque (9th- to early 12th-century) stone church, at the centre of modern housing estate. The church is likely to have been enclosed within a defensive ditch and would have been associated with a cemetery and other monastic or secular buildings. No trace of any other associated monuments survives in the vicinity of the church.
A single test-trench was opened c. 40m from the church on the North Circular Road in an attempt to find and evaluate any outlying archaeological features. No archaeological deposits or indicators were found in the test-trench, where a natural, sterile soil profile was identified immediately under the existing road surface. Archaeological monitoring is to be carried out during the construction phase of the development.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
