County: Clare Site name: CLONROAD MORE (Site P8)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0851
Author: Dermot Nelis, IAC Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 533000m, N 675524m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.826514, -8.994168
The N18 Ennis Bypass would involve the construction of a 13.8km eastern bypass of Ennis from Latoon, outside Newmarket, to north of Barefield, at Cragard, along with a 7.1km western relief road from Killow to Claureen, outside Ennis.
Site P8 is a lane known as the ‘Rocky Road’, which was used by pilgrims until the 1960s and may be on the line of a medieval trackway connecting Ennis Friary and Killone Abbey. On either side of this trackway a number of drystone-built enclosures were noted as part of the environmental assessment process.
Three test-trenches totalling 158m2 were mechanically opened. The excavation of trenches P8i and P8iii, east and west of the Rocky Road, failed to produce any material of archaeological significance. Excavation of P8ii revealed a shallow stone spread either side of the Rocky Road, which was considered to be of relatively recent origin. No other archaeological features or artefacts were recorded.
This project was funded by Clare County Council.
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