2014:300 - BALLYNACALLY: Kilchreest Burial Ground, Carrowkilla, Clare
County: Clare
Site name: BALLYNACALLY: Kilchreest Burial Ground, Carrowkilla
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL050-036001and CL050-036002
Licence number: 14E0083
Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (IRELAND) LTD.
Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Cruhseen, Co. Clare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 527160m, N 663665m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.719182, -9.078172
Test trenching of land proposed for a burial ground extension was carried out in March 2014. The site lies adjacent to a medieval church and graveyard (CL050-036001, 002).
Five test trenches, each 20m long and 1.8m wide, were excavated, some targeted at geophysical anomalies (14R002, Leigh 2014). The stratigraphy of all the trenches was 0.3-0.5m of topsoil overlying naturally deposited yellowish brown and greyish brown clay glacial tills with gravel patches and occasional outcropping of shale. The geophysical anomalies generally corresponded with outcropping bedrock.
No archaeological features or deposits were encountered.
Reference
Leigh, J M, 2014, Geophysical Report for Kilchreest Burial Ground, Co. Clare, unpublished J M Leigh Survey report 14R002