County: Limerick Site name: PEAFIELD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1408
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 562258m, N 655244m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.647084, -8.557719
A series of pits was identified in a large field adjacent to construction work on the Limerick Southern Ring Road at Peafield, Kilmurry. Cleaning of the site revealed that these features consisted of one large oval pit, measuring 2.1m north–south by 1.6m, which contained occasional charcoal flecks, and eight pits concentrated around a flat boulder, each of which contained charcoal and cremated bone. The pits averaged 0.4m in diameter and were 8–200mm deep. A second large pit lay c. 100m east of this concentration of pits. This was circular, measuring 0.5m in diameter, with straight sides, a flat bottom and a maximum depth of 0.4m. It contained large amounts of cremated human bone and charcoal. The contents of the pits were bulk sampled and are currently being processed.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
