County: Clare Site name: KNOCKASKIBBOLE (Site P11)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0838
Author: Elizabeth Connolly, for Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: House - indeterminate date
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 536803m, N 677695m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.846479, -8.938164
Testing was carried out at site P11 from 25 to 26 June 2003 as part of a programme of site-specific testing along the route of the proposed Ennis Bypass. Site P11 is located in Knockaskibbole townland. This clachan-type settlement includes one inhabited cottage, which is located outside the road corridor, a disused farmhouse and a group of neglected farm outhouses.
Four trenches were excavated by hand to natural. Two were located in disused outhouses, one was in a derelict farmhouse and one was in the farmyard. Beneath some overburden in the farmyard trench was a layer of rough metalling with no evidence of embellishment. Beneath this was a layer of tightly packed boulders, free of finds, overlying natural boulder clay. The trench in the derelict house revealed the floor to be earthen. Beneath the earthen floor was natural boulder clay. The floors in both outhouses were concrete, with broken stones beneath, lying on natural boulder clay. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
