2008:762 - ASKEATON, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick

Site name: ASKEATON

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI011–092

Licence number: 07E1126

Author: Ross MacLeod, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 25, Lisbaun Industrial Estate, Tuam Road, Galway

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 534260m, N 650422m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.601083, -8.970447

Test-trenching was undertaken in advance of a Limerick County Council housing scheme. The development area was located to the north-west of Askeaton, outside the medieval town. Test-trenches were excavated across all proposed house plots. The average depth of the topsoil, a mid-brown silty clay, was 0.25m. No features or finds of archaeological significance were found.