2016:324 - Dangan Uí Bhigín, Quin, Clare

Two small trenches were excavated as part of a research programme at Dangan Uí Bhigín Castle. The castle likely has its origins in the 14th century. The trenches were targeted within and immediately outside of the banquet hall. The trenches located post-medieval pottery, earlier 18th-century glass wine bottles and drinking vessels, clay tobacco pipe pieces, window glass, slate roofing tiles, iron nails, animal bone and oyster shell that together demonstrate a phase of high status activity in the earlier 18th century. Previously unknown and undated walls representing a building and an associated cobbled surface were also found. A fragment of a rotary quernstone likely dating to the early medieval period was recovered in a residual context and a sherd of medieval pottery was found unstratified within the castle.

AHISH, BALLINRUAN, CRUSHEEN, CO. CLARE