County: Limerick Site name: COONAGH WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A005/2010
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS Ireland Ltd.
Site type: Kiln - brick
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 552733m, N 656652m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.658999, -8.698665
The lower parts of brick kilns, built on estuarine clay adjacent to the River Shannon, were identified in testing. The kilns were characterised by linear 'benches' of bricks with charcoal-rich fuel between these rows. It is very likely the kilns were associated with the later 18th/earlier 19th-century building boom in Limerick city. The kilns are part of a relict industrial landscape that includes further examples of kilns (A005/2018 and A005/2022, No. 998 and No. 994, Excavations 2004), clay quarries (brick-holes) and river transport (pier and inlets for small craft). The site will be fully excavated in early 2005.
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