County: Limerick Site name: Lough Gur
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 05E1213 ext.
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 565724m, N 640827m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.517739, -8.505009
Monitoring of upgrading works was carried out at a water treatment building in a low-lying greenfield site located 1.1km to the east of Lough Gur. The nearest known monument to the site is a standing stone (LI032–044) located c. 240m to the north-west. The upgrading works involved the installation of a chlorination tank, an access road (3m by 10m), two car parking spaces (each measuring 3m by 5.3m) and an enclosing fence. The stratigraphy to the north of the water treatment building consisted of a 0.2m-deep topsoil layer directly overlying the natural boulder clay subsoil. The topsoil layer to the south and east of the water treatment building was found to have been removed to subsoil level and was replaced with a hardcore trackway in order to consolidate a cattle path into the field. The hardcore fill forming this trackway was removed to the level of the underlying subsoil and nothing of an archaeological nature was noted. There were no archaeological features or finds uncovered during monitoring of upgrading works at this site.
