County: Limerick Site name: Curraghchase
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0811
Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services, St Alphonsus Street, Limerick.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 540342m, N 648987m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.588890, -8.880419
This testing was carried out over the course of three days in a greenfield site in advance of the development of a hotel complex and houses. An enclosure is within the site boundary and a tower-house is adjacent to the development. A total of eighteen trenches of various lengths were enacted throughout the site from the topsoil down to the subsoil, one of which partially uncovered the remains of a small burnt mound; the other trenches proved to be negative.
