County: Clare Site name: Cahermacrusheen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL008–109 Licence number: 10E0029
Author: Anne Carey, 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 508863m, N 700004m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.042919, -9.359096
Trial-trenching was carried out at Cahermacrusheen townland, on 12 February 2010 at the site of a proposed house extension that also involved the provision of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The excavation of seven trial-trenches concentrated on the service trench leading to the south-east from the existing dwelling to the percolation area and on the percolation area itself.
Trench 2 was excavated through an existing field boundary which comprised a drystone wall, measuring between 0.5m and 0.8m in height and c. 0.5m in width, which was constructed on a low earthen bank. There were no finds of archaeological interest from this trench.
Four trenches were excavated in the proposed percolation area and in one of these trenches, Trench 5, there was evidence of burning at a depth of 0.6m below ground level, in the form of a semicircular feature defined by a narrow strip of subsoil, stained a red/orange colour. The fill within this semicircular ring of reddish soil was a dark-orange/brown silty clay, appearing as a slightly darker version of the overlying subsoil. There were no artifacts associated with this feature and it was not excavated or classified further.
