County: Limerick Site name: BALLYVOLLANE II
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1403
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 563758m, N 659143m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.682230, -8.535987
This site did not have an above-ground register before removal of topsoil, which was monitored by Avril Hayes (No. 1146, Excavations 2002, 01E1069) before construction of a pipeline. This revealed a spread of burnt and fire-cracked stones covering an area measuring 12m north–south by 4m. The stone deposit had an average depth of 0.3m. Excavation of this material revealed a series of pits and natural hollows, all filled with similar fire-shattered stone and charcoal. One of these pits produced a sherd of Beaker pottery and a piece of worked timber, tentatively interpreted as a wooden scoop or shovel. This may have been used to move the burnt stones and appeared to have been broken and abandoned in antiquity. A shallow rectangular pit was also identified, c. 10m to the east of the burnt spread. It measured 1.4m east–west by 0.9m and was cut into sand to a depth of 0.1m. It was also filled with burnt stone and occasional charcoal flecks. Part of an animal tooth was recovered from the fill of the pit. Its association with the main spread of burnt stone is unclear.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
