2002:1248 - RATHKEALE: The Square, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick Site name: RATHKEALE: The Square

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:31 Licence number: 02E0778

Author: Ken Wiggins

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 536484m, N 642149m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.526996, -8.936046

The digging of foundation trenches relating to the construction of a single dwelling-house was monitored in May 2002. The development was limited to part of the ground formerly occupied by a recently demolished hotel, along the southern side of the town square. The trenching exposed rubble fill deposited directly on bedrock. No archaeological features or finds were discovered.

17 Vartry Close, Raheen, Co. Limerick