County: Limerick Site name: ST SAVIOUR’S DOMINICAN PRIORY, Limerick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0661
Author: Tracy Collins, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Religious house - Dominican friars
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 558059m, N 657943m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.671037, -8.620110
Eleven trenches were dug by machine and by hand in an area just south of the medieval Dominican priory, in advance of a proposed development. Five yielded archaeological material. Trenches 1 and 2 exposed the lower courses of the limestone town wall, while human remains were exposed in Trenches 2, 10 and 11. Only those in Trenches 2 and 11 were articulated, in situ and orientated in the usual east–west direction. At the northern end of Trench 10, the foundations of a wall were discovered, which were interpreted as the southern wall of the medieval church of the priory. This wall lay c. 8m from the extant northern wall of the church. The remainder of the trenches showed that the site had been disturbed in the past and the archaeological layers had been removed extensively.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
