County: Limerick Site name: Site 47001B, Knockcommane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A035/000, E2342
Author: Bernice Molloy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Enclosure?
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 587762m, N 616281m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.298053, -8.179408
This site was identified during Phase II test excavation of the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown road improvement scheme carried out in May 2006. The site was subsequently excavated between 7 and 14 July 2006. The site, which was topsoil-stripped under supervision, consisted of four curvilinear shallow narrow ditches, which appeared to form an enclosure c. 14.5m in diameter. Slag fragments and a blue glass bead were retrieved from the ditches. A possible structure was identified in the centre of the enclosure. A furnace bowl was identified within this possible structure, which produced a large amount of metal slag. A pit located to the east of this structure produced a whetstone and a possible stone awl.
