County: Limerick Site name: ADAMSWOOD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1213
Author: Sarah McCutcheon, Limerick County Council
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 541336m, N 642952m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.534764, -8.864692
Monitoring of the Croagh Sewerage Scheme was carried out (see No. 1071, Excavations 2002, 01E1087). The treatment plant and associated pipework are situated in a greenfield site to the south-east of Croagh village. Topsoil-stripping revealed eight burnt spreads. Two, toward the eastern end of the wayleave, were excavated under this licence.
The first area was c. 191m west of the treatment plant. It consisted of a subrectangular pit (measuring 1.2m north–south and 0.38m deep) cut by a later, oval pit (1.8m by 1m by 0.4m deep). Both of the pits were filled with burnt-mound material. There was a highly oxidised depression in the boulder clay abutting the pits to the south. This was interpreted as an informal hearth beside a succession of troughs. No mound material survived beyond the area surrounding the pits.
The second area was c. 234m from the treatment plant. It consisted of a charcoal-enriched silt, which survived intermittently for a maximum of 8m east–west by 9m. The silt varied from a thin layer to a smear on the underlying boulder clay. The most extensive area measured 1.5m by 1.4m. Several small pits were also identified but proved to be modern.
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