County: Clare Site name: Garraun
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0132
Author: Florence M. Hurley, 8 Marina Park, Victoria Road, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 561308m, N 659036m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.681100, -8.572199
The University of Limerick is constructing four sports pitches, a sports pavilion incorporating changing rooms, offices and associated facilities and a restaurant, together with access roads, car-parking and landscaping, as part of their northern campus at Garraun, Clonlara, Co. Clare.
A substantial part of the preparatory ground-works will involve the raising of the ground levels across the whole site by approximately 1.25m to protect the proposed pitches against future extreme flooding events. Also associated with these measures is the construction of an earthen bund around the northern, western and southern sides of the site. The development site covers 9.8ha.
A series of 29 test-trenches were excavated by machine under supervision. No archaeological material was uncovered during the testing. All of the material uncovered was of 19th- or 20th-century date.
