County: Clare Site name: ‘DURTY NELLY’S’, BUNRATTY EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: CL061–011 and CL062–001004 E4009; C340; R166
Author: Linda G. Lynch, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, 32 Nicholas Street, Kings Island, Limerick.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 545135m, N 660917m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.696615, -8.811678
Testing was undertaken at Bunratty East, Bunratty, Co. Clare, in advance of a proposed extension to the public house Durty Nelly’s. The site is located immediately to the east of Bunratty Castle. The testing took place to the rear of the public house, immediately adjacent to the River Shannon. Two trenches were opened, one orientated north–south and measuring 16m in length and the other orientated east–west and measuring 7.5m in length. The number and location of trenches was severely limited by the presence of modern services and associated features. An infill layer, measuring 1.5m in depth, had been dumped on the site in the past to level it up. This had been dumped directly on natural clays. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered in the trenches and no architectural fragments were recovered. A metal-detection survey of the spoilheaps did not reveal any artefacts.
