County: Limerick Site name: ENNISCOUSH, Rathkeale
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:31 Licence number: 00E0063
Author: Kenneth Wiggins
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 535856m, N 640476m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.511891, -8.944974
A test excavation took place on the site of a proposed housing development close to the Deel River at the southern end of the town of Rathkeale. Three large strip-trenches were dug by mechanical excavator in February 2000. The excavation revealed that the subsurface stratigraphy was composed mainly of naturally deposited, fine, silty clay material, which had accumulated as a result of flooding of the nearby river. No evidence for activity of an archaeological nature was revealed in any of the cuttings.
17 Vartry Close, Raheen, Co. Limerick
