County: Limerick Site name: N20 CROOM BYPASS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0375
Author: Tracy Collins, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 550818m, N 640944m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.517654, -8.724646
Monitoring of the construction of the N20 Croom Bypass was undertaken from August 1999 until March 2000. A preliminary strip of the entire route, 4m wide along its centre, was undertaken prior to the arrival of the main contractor on site. Any undulation within the road-take that had not been previously tested was stripped by machine to ascertain its archaeological merit. Several bumps and hollows were stripped, but none proved to be of archaeological significance.
The bypass was almost 7km long and 40m wide and traversed eight townlands. Stripping beyond the road-take for spoil deposition and ancillary works was also monitored under this licence. During that time, nothing of archaeological significance was noted. Several phases of comprehensive archaeological mitigation had preceded the monitoring phase, and this may account for the dearth of archaeological features uncovered along the route. The local authority (Limerick County Council) and the NRA funded the archaeological dimension of the project. The main contractor funded monitoring outside the road-take.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
