County: Limerick Site name: BALLYMACKEAMORE (BGE 3/66/4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0579
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 547377m, N 639637m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.505585, -8.775124
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. A single post-hole or small pit measuring 0.8m by 0.6m was excavated. The sides of the feature sloped down at a roughly 45º angle to a concave base that lay 0.4m below the machined ground surface. Two fills were recorded. The primary fill, 0.3m thick, was a mid-brown silty clay with orange mottling and occasional charcoal flecking. The secondary fill, 0.1m thick, was a dark brown, silty clay with frequent charcoal inclusions. Both fills included limestone pieces, suggestive of post packing. These stones were as large as 0.25m but were generally in the size range of 0.1–0.15m.
The absence of artefactual material and the discrete nature of the feature do not allow for detailed chronological or functional discussion. It is most likely that the feature was cut to insert a timber upright, which may have had a diameter of c. 0.3m.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
