County: Clare Site name: DRUMBIGGLE, Ennis
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1029
Author: Martin Jones
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 532426m, N 676902m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.838823, -9.002967
Topsoil-stripping was monitored at the proposed location of 34 of a total of 69 detached and semi-detached houses and their ancillary works at Drumbiggle, Golf Links Road, Ennis, Co. Clare, between 7 and 9 July 2003. The site is located on a low east-facing slope in rough pasture. No known archaeological sites are recorded in the vicinity of the subject site. The area stripped measured approximately 300m east–west by 130m.
The stratigraphy consisted of a mid- to dark-brown clay loam over a mid-brown gravelly clay loam which was absent from the eastern area of the site. These topsoil deposits overlay an orange to mid-brown sandy silty clay containing medium to large stones. Small and irregular deposits of sterile pink till containing limestone gravel and bedrock outcrops were also visible intermittently below the topsoil deposits.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of monitoring. A single cut feature identified was modern and associated with a nearby house.
No. 6 Newgarden, Belclare, Tuam, Co. Galway
