2008:784 - KILMALLOCK, Limerick

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Limerick

Site name: KILMALLOCK

Sites and Monuments Record No.: 164656 141450

Licence number: C310; E3961

Author: Sarah McCutcheon, Limerick County Council

Author/Organisation Address: County Hall, Dooradoyle, Co. Limerick

Site type: Town defences

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 561145m, N 627612m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.398656, -8.570935

Limerick County Council proposes to conserve a section of the town defences in Kilmallock, near the public carpark behind King’s Castle. Test excavations were carried out to establish the level at which the inner face of the wall was extant below ground. The excavated material consisted of landscaped material of recent origin and nothing of archaeological significance, other than the wall face, was uncovered.