County: Limerick Site name: BALLYNACLOGH RIVER, BALLINACURRA HART/BALLYKEEFFE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A005/1009
Author: Rex Bangerter, The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, Brehon House, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Riverine/estuarine
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 555810m, N 654744m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.642105, -8.652940
Riverine archaeological assessment took place as part of the proposed Limerick southern ring road (Phase II), Southern Contract. A pre-disturbance archaeological assessment of a 55m stretch of Ballynaclogh (Area UA3) was carried out. The survey area extends across the townland boundaries of Ballinacurra (Hart) and Ballykeeffe.
Systematic visual inspection of the riverbed, intertidal and bankside elements of Ballynaclogh River were undertaken at the proposed river crossing. In addition, where practicable, a comprehensive magnetometer survey by hand-held metal detection was undertaken. No archaeologically significant material was revealed.
