County: Limerick Site name: GORTADROMA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 18:93 Licence number: 01E0737
Author: Dominic Delany for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 521889m, N 643582m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.537985, -9.151426
Monitoring of topsoil removal was carried out on the site of a proposed extension to an existing landfill at Gortadroma, Co. Limerick, from 30 July to 2 August 2001. The existing landfill contains the site of a holy well, which is named ‘Toberreendoney’ on Ordnance Survey maps. The holy well site was tested by Paul Stevens in October 1998 (Excavations 1998, No. 398, 98E0467) but no trace of the monument was discovered.
The site of the proposed extension is located immediately east of the existing landfill and comprises an area measuring 400m north–south by 150m. Most of this area had already been stripped of topsoil during the course of developments at the site in the last decade. Two strips of land, each measuring 100m by 20m, were stripped of topsoil. No archaeological material was discovered.
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