County: Clare Site name: DERRYMORE WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 35:53 Licence number: 02E0173
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 549961m, N 675739m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.830286, -8.742550
A pre-planning test excavation was carried out near a stone enclosure. Two derelict buildings are on the site of the proposed development. The enclosure was described by Westropp (1908) as an earthwork but is in fact surrounded by a stone wall. The area of the proposed house was sterile of archaeological features, and the subsurface deposits showed that the soil cover was light and over limestone bedrock.
Reference
Westropp, T.J. 1908 Types of ringforts and similar structures in eastern Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 371–99.
