County: Clare Site name: Cloonfadda
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 07E1077
Author: Dermot Nelis, Dame House, 24–26 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 568327m, N 670671m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.786130, -8.469529
The development at Cloonfadda, Killaloe, would involve the construction of a two-storey detached replacement house and a detached single-storey boiler house and would also include change of use from a derelict cottage to home office use. A wastewater treatment system, improvements to the existing site entrance and all associated site works are also proposed. The site measures c. 110m north–south (maximum) by c. 85m. A new access driveway would measure 65m north-east/south-west.
The site was a gently east–west-sloping field of poorly drained land with rough grass and reeds. The stratigraphy comprised grass and sod sealing a drift geology consisting of an alluvial layer of compact wet grey/brown silty clay. The remains of a former field boundary were noted in the area in which it is proposed to construct the house. In the area of the percolation tank, topsoil overlay a deposit of orange/brown gravel and sand natural. No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed as a result of the monitoring.
