County: Clare Site name: RIVER FERGUS (UPPER) CERTIFIED DRAINAGE SCHEME, ENNIS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL033–082, 033–138 (01, 02) Licence number: 08E0499
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 533397m, N 677846m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.847426, -8.988738
Monitoring of in-stream works along the Upper Fergus from Mill Road Bridge to Bank Place Bridge continued in 2009 (see Excavations 2008, No. 122, for earlier report). A disused slipway, probably late 19th century in date, was uncovered on the bank c. 40m to the west of Bank Place Bridge. It comprised a cobbled locked surface c. 5m long and 2.2m wide and was between 1.2m and 0.8m below the existing ground level.
No other features of archaeological significance were identified. In most sections of work, modern fill overlaid the natural river silts. During excavation, the material removed from the riverbed was spread on a hard surface, where it was visually inspected and metal-detected. All artefacts uncovered were stray finds from fill deposits and/or river gravels and were post-medieval in date.
