County: Clare Site name: CLONROADMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0145 ext.
Author: Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 533877m, N 676409m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.834574, -8.981324
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with a housing development (‘Hawthorns’) took place between 7 and 11 April 2001 at Clonroadmore, Ennis, Co. Clare. This phase (Phase 3) of the development consisted of the construction of 36 houses and a number of access roads. Topsoil-stripping associated with Phase 2 of the development had been monitored during 2000 by Anne Carey (Excavations 2000, No. 66)
The proposed development was located just off the main Limerick road (N18), in two fields of pasture and rock outcrop, to the north of Phases 1 and 2 of the development. The two fields stripped contained c. 4 acres. One area in each field was not stripped as they were not to be developed.
The stratigraphy encountered consisted of topsoil above orange/brown natural subsoil, grey boulder clay and bedrock. One field drain was uncovered which measured 41m north–south, 0.6–0.9m wide and 0.4–0.5m deep. Modern glass fragments, red brick fragments and modern pottery sherds were visible within the field drain. Modern pottery sherds, red brick fragments, occasional oyster shells and two glazed sherds (probably post-medieval in date) were recovered from the topsoil.
Purcell House, Claregalway Road, Oranmore, Co. Galway
