County: Clare Site name: BUNRATTY WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 61:11 Licence number: 05E0372
Author: Tracy Collins, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, 16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 544307m, N 660973m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.697033, -8.823933
Test-trenching as part of a wider assessment was undertaken in advance of an eight-unit housing development which lay within the zone of archaeological potential for the historic town at Bunratty. The site sloped from high at the east to low wet marshy ground at the west. Eight trenches were excavated, measuring between 10–32m in length by 1.2m in the high drier part of the site. Nothing of an archaeological nature was found. The western part of the site was subsequently monitored. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted.
