2004:1001 - COONAGH WEST, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick Site name: COONAGH WEST

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A005/2021

Author: Graham Hull, TVAS Ireland Ltd.

Site type: Burnt mound

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 552879m, N 657137m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.663370, -8.696577

A burnt-stone mound (7m diameter by 1m high) was found partially buried by alluvium on the margin of the River Shannon estuary. No trough was found in testing. The site will be fully excavated in early 2005.

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