2007:1124 - Knockaderry, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick Site name: Knockaderry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI037–009 Licence number: 07E0179

Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare.

Site type: Prehistoric burial and settlement

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 534564m, N 635448m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.466552, -8.963014

Test-trenching in advance of a proposed housing development located a cremation burial cemetery (21 pits) and a circular hut site (2m diameter). These features are very probably prehistoric in date. Linear features were also found and these may relate to early field systems.