County: Limerick Site name: BARNAKYLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 12:128 Licence number: 02E1291
Author: Dermot Nelis, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 552009m, N 650421m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.602930, -8.708459
A desk-based assessment carried out to ascertain the impact, if any, on the archaeological landscape of a proposed gas pipeline between Barnakyle and Coonagh West, Co. Limerick, confirmed that the proposed wayleave would be c. 6m west of a subcircular mound, c. 60–70m in diameter and 5m high. Visual inspection of the area, however, suggested that this was not an archaeological monument but the western edge of an east–west geological ridge that extended into the field to the east, i.e. the area of testing, for c. 100m. This general area is gently undulating, and a number of other geological ridges have been recorded in the immediate landscape.
Eight trenches were opened. Testing failed to reveal either subsurface features or portable finds. A stone layer in one of the trenches was interpreted as modern consolidation laid down to provide support at a gate. Testing confirmed the identification of the geological ridge through the presence of geologically deposited natural with frequent small stones and occasional large stones.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
