County: Limerick Site name: RIVER SHANNON, Plassey
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00D056
Author: Niall Brady, for Archaeological Diving Company Ltd.
Site type: Wreck
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 560598m, N 658558m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.676750, -8.582640
In advance of a new bridge scheme across the Shannon at Plassey, underwater assessment and survey were carried out over an area c. 30m upstream and c. 30m downstream of the site. A single item of archaeological interest was observed. It was a ship’s timber measuring 1.9m long that was made from the bough and branch of the same tree. It is probably a portion of a stem timber. The timber was an isolated find that would have been washed downstream. It was relocated downstream of the proposed works area.
2 Vale Terrace, Lower Dargle Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
