County: Clare Site name: BAREFIELD (Site AR23)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL026-079---- Licence number: 03E0837
Author: Elizabeth Connolly, for Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 536226m, N 682280m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.887614, -8.947624
Testing was carried out at site AR23 on 9 June 2003 as part of a programme of site-specific testing along the route of the proposed Ennis Bypass. The site is near a ringfort. A geophysical survey in this area was carried out by Geoquest. No geophysical anomalies of archaeological interest were detected. Probable modern debris was detected in the topsoil.
Three trenches were excavated to natural by machine, to the south of the monument. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
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