County: Limerick Site name: ASKEATON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI011–092 Licence number: 06E0936
Author: Avril Hayes, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 534094m, N 650585m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.602527, -8.972929
Testing was undertaken in advance of a housing development located in the centre of the town overlooking The Quay to the west. The site consisted of a flat-topped rock outcrop, which overlooked flat low-lying ground to the north-east. The site had been quarried in the past and this was most evident at the south-west face of the rock outcrop, where a number of hollow areas were noted cut into the rock face. A low curving bank was noted at the top of the slope on the north-east side of the plateau. This bank may have defined an access track relating to the quarrying of stone in the past. A fragment of a post-medieval wig curler was recovered from the topsoil during the testing.
32 Nicholas Street, King’s Island, Limerick
