2007:151 - CAPPAGH, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: CAPPAGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0680

Author: Lydia Cagney

Site type: Building and Burnt spread

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 499447m, N 654386m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.631378, -9.485415

An assessment was carried out in advance of the construction of a housing development comprising 69 houses, a crèche, a storm-water attenuation unit and associated groundworks at Fort Road, Cappa, Kilrush, Co. Clare. A ringfort, CL067–010, forms part of the northern boundary of the site.

A total of 22 test-trenches were excavated as part of the assessment; two areas of archaeological potential were identified, the foundation remains of a post-medieval stone building and walls, and a spread of burnt-mound material. Recommendations regarding the appropriate management of the monument, along with the preservation of the archaeological deposits uncovered, were made.

34 Castle Heights, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary