County: Limerick Site name: NEWCASTLE WEST: Maiden Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1703
Author: Simon Ó Faoláin, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 528065m, N 633748m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.450461, -9.058270
The development site is to the rear of buildings on the northern side of Maiden Street. It comprises a large concrete-covered yard and an adjacent greenfield site, the whole situated on quite a steep slope running downhill from east to west.
Monitoring of groundworks took place from 9 to 11 December 2002. The area to be stripped measured c. 40m by 15m. The topsoil-stripping was carried out by a mechanical digger with a flat bucket. The topsoil was a dark brown, silty loam with a maximum thickness of c. 0.4m, coming down onto a red/mid-brown, clayey silt subsoil. Aside from several demonstrably modern rubbish pits, nothing was encountered during monitoring.
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