County: Limerick Site name: Lisnagry/Ballynacourty/Sallymount/ Gardenhill/Cloon and Commons/Gooig
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E003462
Author: Kate Taylor, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 566257m, N 660343m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.693174, -8.499147
This monitoring was undertaken during construction of the N7 Nenagh to Limerick road project. Monitoring began in April 2007 and is currently ongoing. The monitoring was carried out only in three areas of bog that had not been investigated during either Phase I testing, Phase II resolution or Phase III additional testing in 2006 and 2007. These are Drominboy Bog, Co. Limerick, and Annaholty and Cappadine Bogs, Co. Tipperary. The N7 traverses a gently undulating landscape of lowland pasture broken only by a large area of peat basin straddling the border between counties Limerick and Tipperary (Annaholty Bog). The region is overlooked by the Silvermines Mountains to the east and the Arra Mountains to the north and west.
The techniques of road construction within the bogs varied, with peat being mechanically removed and replaced with stone where possible and piling being carried out in the deepest parts of the bog. The ‘dig and replace’ operations were monitored fully; however, safety concerns meant that the monitoring archaeologist often had to remain a considerable distance from the open peat face.
Drominboy Bog
The road route crosses this small bog a little to the west of its centre. The bog is steep-sided, dropping sharply towards its centre, and only the edges were monitored as the deeper central portion is to be piled.
