County: Clare Site name: BALLYSTEEN, Liscannor
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL014-021001–2 Licence number: 03E1040
Author: Elizabeth Connolly
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 504689m, N 690315m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.955149, -9.418467
Testing of the site of a proposed development was carried out on 5 July 2003. The site is a pub (Murphy’s Bar) which faces onto the main road leading from Liscannor to the Cliffs of Moher. Behind the pub to the north and north-west is a graveyard, and to the west is St Brigid’s Well.
The proposed development involved the extension of the premises and change of use of the existing bottle store to toilets. This extension would involve excavations for a septic tank, a Bord na Móna treatment unit and a percolation area. Three trenches were excavated within the site of the proposed development, one by hand and the other two by machine, to natural undisturbed levels. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
Monitoring of excavation for a proposed septic tank was carried out on 25 July 2003. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
Glenbonniv, Feakle, Co. Clare
