County: Limerick Site name: BALLYNACLOGH RIVER, BALLINACURRA (WESTON)/BALLINACURRA (HART)/BALLYKEEFFE/DOORADOYLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A005/1008
Author: Rex Bangerter, The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, Brehon House, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Riverine/estuarine
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 556173m, N 654082m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.636186, -8.647475
Riverine archaeological assessment took place as part of the proposed Limerick southern ring road (Phase II), Southern Contract. A pre-disturbance assessment of a 300m stretch of Ballynaclogh River (Area UA2) was undertaken. The survey area extends across the townland boundaries of Ballinacurra (Weston), Ballinacurra (Hart), Ballykeeffe and Dooradoyle.
Systematic visual inspection of the riverbed, intertidal and bankside elements of the Ballynaclogh River were carried out at the proposed river impact area UA2. An archaeological assessment, including total station recording, of Ballinacurra Bridge was made. Where practicable, a comprehensive magnetometer survey by hand-held metal detection was carried out. Two features of archaeological interest were identified as a result of the survey: Site 1, a series of timber pilings located 75m downstream of Ballinacurra Bridge, and Site 2, an early bridge structure encased between the 19th- and 20th-century components of the existing road bridge, SMR 13:12. No further archaeologically significant material was revealed.
