County: Limerick Site name: CASTLETROY: Fields I-III, Kilbane II
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1787
Author: Avril Hayes, Aegis Archaeology Ltd
Site type: Cremation pit, Pit, Enclosure and Furnace
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 562515m, N 658234m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.673978, -8.554262
Monitoring took place of topsoil-stripping associated with a housing development, realignment of a distributor road and associated site works at Kilbane, Castletroy, Co. Limerick. The development is located within the zones of potential for a holy well and a possible burial ground, SMR 5:34(01, 02). Monitoring was undertaken subsequent to testing across the three fields of the development. Features were encountered in each of the fields, and were subsequently excavated by hand.
Stripping in Field 1 uncovered eight pits and one deposit. Five of the pits contained cremated bone and two pits contained fragments of Bronze Age pottery. Stripping in Field 3 revealed four areas containing varying quantities of archaeological features. These comprised a number of cremations, with one bowl furnace. Fragments of pottery were also recovered from the excavation. Stripping in Field 2 revealed a large circular ditched enclosure, measuring 40m in internal diameter, with an inner ditch also noted. This site was cordoned off and was not excavated.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
