County: Clare Site name: KILBRECKAN (Site P9)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0858
Author: Dermot Nelis, IAC Ltd.
Site type: House - indeterminate date
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 536723m, N 675976m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.831025, -8.939018
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 P9 consisted of a two-roomed single-storey ruined cottage. It measured 9m east–west by 6m, with an entrance in the south-facing wall 1.1m wide. The walls were 1m thick.
Two test-trenches and a test-pit totalling 32.6m2 were mechanically excavated across the area of P9. They failed to reveal any archaeological features or artefacts. Trench P9i partially truncated a north–south wall located to the west that formed part of the main structure. This wall, 6m in length, was interpreted as forming part of a collapsed outhouse, rectangular in plan, which it is suggested was contemporary with the main cottage structure. The outhouse was completed by an east–west wall at the northern end, measuring 1.9m in length and 0.7m wide. The highest surviving part of the outhouse structure was recorded in the northernmost (south-facing) east–west wall, which was 0.55m high. A possible entrance was noted in the southern east–west wall. The internal area was covered with stone from the collapsed walls. The base of the walls appeared to have been made of larger cut stone, similar to the house, whereas the upper courses of the outhouse walls consisted of irregular unworked stone.
This project was funded by Clare County Council.
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