County: Limerick Site name: CARROW (BGE 3/69/3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0690
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: House - 19th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 551179m, N 638012m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.491337, -8.718885
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. A stone-built drain associated with post-medieval pottery and glass was excavated. To the west of the site, beyond the fence-line, a drystone wall and blackthorn trees indicated the presence of a derelict building and probable haggard. This observation was supported by the landowner’s recollection of a ‘ruined house’ in the vicinity. The OS first edition shows a building at, or very near to, the excavation site.
A length of 6m of the drain was exposed, and it was seen to be 0.8m wide and 0.3m deep. The drain was constructed of rough-hewn limestone slabs lining the sides of a U-shaped cut. The drain was capped with limestone slabs. Stratigraphically post-dating the drain was a spread of limestone pieces that may have been laid as hard-standing or perhaps represented tumble from a structure. The spread extended across most of the excavated area and was composed of cobble-sized stone, typically 0.1–0.15m in diameter. On top of and between these cobbles a silty subsoil was recorded. This deposit produced 38 pieces of 19th-/20th-century transfer-applied pottery, three pieces of bottle glass, a clay-pipe stem, two iron nails, a shotgun pellet and a modern glass bead.
It seems likely that the drain and deposit of post-medieval artefacts were associated with a 19th-/20th-century domestic structure adjacent to the gas-pipe spread.
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