County: Clare Site name: POULNAGUN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 8:34 Licence number: 01E0994
Author: Billy Quinn, ASU Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 511458m, N 700031m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.043600, -9.320420
Pre-development monitoring at the site of a proposed dwelling-house with septic tank in Poulnagun, Lisdoonvarna, was carried out on 9 October 2001. The proposed development was situated two fields to the east of a barrow site, on the south slope of a hill.
All the areas to be affected by groundworks were monitored. Generally the stratigraphy revealed a dark, loosely compact silt over a dark brown silty clay, below the topsoil. Fifteen sherds of modern pottery and a single pipe bowl fragment were retrieved from the upper layer.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
Purcell House, Oranmore, Co. Galway
