County: Limerick Site name: Dromdarrig
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI013–009 Licence number: 03E0049 ext.
Author: Lee Scotland, Ægis Archaeology, 32 Nicholas St, King’s Island, Limerick.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554260m, N 654444m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.639281, -8.675794
Unlicensed monitoring was undertaken immediately outside a previously agreed buffer zone around the monastic complex element of LI013–009, Mungret Abbey, in response to planning conditions from the local authority in advance of the construction of two dwellings. This project forms part of the Mungret College Lands Development, which has been subject to a series of archaeological investigations by Tracy Collins (Excavations 2003, No. 1158; Excavations 2006, No. 1259). A small area of in situ burning, a possible south-west/north-east wall foundation and an east–west orientated ditch were found during the testing of 2006. These features were not excavated and were left in situ, and may relate to the town or borough known to have grown up around the monastic complex.
A single pit measuring 1.5m by 0.6m by 0.32m deep was identified and excavated during the monitoring of 2008. The fill of the pit contained both burnt stone and charcoal which gave it the appearance of the archetypal burnt mound/spread material. A thin deposit, measuring 2m by 1m by 0.09m deep, overlay the pit and contained both charcoal and burnt stones. Both the pit and spread had been truncated by several modern field drains.
