County: Limerick Site name: CASTLE DEMESNE, Newcastle West
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:67 Licence number: 99E0222
Author: Rob Lynch, IAC Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 527337m, N 634088m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.453419, -9.069065
The proposed development was at the Ballygowan water plant, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, which is within the zone of archaeological potential for Newcastle West as identified in the Urban Archaeological Survey of County Limerick. Excavations on site were monitored on 19 May 1999.
The proposed development involved the relocation to another part of the site of a water and CO2 tank, the excavation of a plinth to support a new water tank and the excavation of a services trench.
Before arrival on site, much of the development area had been excavated to the level of the natural geology as part of an earlier development.
The results of the monitoring indicated that the area had been extensively landscaped at some point in the past and that any additional excavation associated with the development would impinge only on previously disturbed ground. Based on these results, it was decided that further ground disturbance associated with the development would not require archaeological monitoring.
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