County: Limerick Site name: NEWCASTLE WEST: South Quay (Knockane)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:67 Licence number: 00E0720
Author: Kenneth Wiggins
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 527512m, N 633428m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.447511, -9.066343
A test excavation was carried out in January 2001 on the site of a proposed apartment block development at South Quay (Knockane), Newcastle West. Four cuttings were opened by mechanical excavator. The site was discovered to be very disturbed by the construction and subsequent demolition, in the 20th century, of a number of buildings along South Quay, including a power plant, a sawmill and a cinema. Cutting 2 contained part of a stone-revetted channel associated with the sawmill. There were no archaeological features in any of the cuttings.
77 Vartry Close, Raheen, Co. Limerick
