County: Clare Site name: DRUMQUIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 50:30 and 50:31 Licence number: 01E0051
Author: Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 531026m, N 668300m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.761344, -9.021926
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with the proposed construction of a dwelling-house, garage and septic tank took place on 12 July 2001 at Drumquin, Ennis, Co. Clare. The site was in a large field of undulating pasture with good views of the Shannon estuary to the south and south-west. To the east-north-east an enclosure (RMP 50:32) was visible. Neither of two enclosures located within the same field as the development was visible.
The stratigraphy consisted of topsoil on the surface, above orange/brown natural subsoil, natural sands and gravels and bedrock. The one artefact recovered was a fragment of modern glass.
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