County: Limerick Site name: Sarsfield Street, Kilmallock
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI047-022001 Licence number: 17E0262
Author: Miriam Carroll
Site type: Medieval urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 560863m, N 627920m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.401404, -8.575125
Monitoring was carried out of ground works to the rear of Dansko Foods Ltd., Sarsfield Street, Kilmallock. The works comprised the removal of a 3m wide strip of infilled material abutting the upstanding town wall over a length of c. 40m north-east/south-west. Two main layers of infilled material were removed comprising the upper compacted gravel/hardcore yard surface and a substantial underlying layer of orange redeposited clay. A maximum depth of c. 2m of material was removed. This has resulted in the full face of this section of the town wall being exposed and revealed a short projecting course towards the base of the wall. The infilled material was removed to expose a dark brown soil with inclusions of post-medieval material which was preserved in situ.
Tobar Archaeological Services, Saleen, Midleton, Co. Cork
