County: Limerick Site name: RIVER SHANNON, CASTLEMUNGRET AND BUNLIKY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A005/1010
Author: Rex Bangerter, The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, Brehon House, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: Riverine/estuarine
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554460m, N 656293m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.655921, -8.673095
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 200m stretch of the southern shoreline of the River Shannon was undertaken and the survey area extended across the southernmost margin of Castlemungret townland.
Systematic visual inspection of the riverbed, intertidal and foreshore elements of the River Shannon were carried out at the proposed river crossing. A comprehensive magnetometer survey by hand-held metal detection was also carried out where possible. No archaeologically significant material was revealed.
