County: Limerick Site name: KILMALLOCK: Abbeyfarm
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0896
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 560705m, N 628222m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.404116, -8.577471
This site was test-trenched in advance of constructing a small extension to a modern house. The site is on the north-east side of King’s Castle and to the east of the old Cork–Limerick road that traversed the walled medieval town of Kilmallock (SMR 47:22). The natural topography of this area is sloping ground to the Loobagh River. Test excavation confirmed that there was a considerable amount of levelling up of the terrain by the introduction of soil prior to the construction of modern houses. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
