County: Clare Site name: 5 Abbey Street, Convent Hill, Killaloe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL045–033 Licence number: 08E0348
Author: Avril Hayes Archaeology, 2 Adelaide Terrace, Henry Street, Limerick.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 570331m, N 672859m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.805904, -8.440011
Testing was carried out in advance of the construction of an extension to a house. The site is located within the zone of potential for the historic town of Killaloe. Three trenches were manually excavated at this site. The average depth of excavation was 1m. The stratigraphy consisted of a 0.15m deep layer of topsoil overlying a 0.8m layer of dark blackish-brown silty clay with occasional rubble and brick. The trenches were excavated down to the natural subsoil, a light yellowish-brown silty clay. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted during the test-trenching.
