County: Limerick Site name: Raheen Business Park, Raheen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI013-233 Licence number: 18E0278
Author: Ian Russell
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 555197m, N 652211m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.619287, -8.661653
Monitoring of topsoil removal associated with the development of a new car parking facility, and all related groundworks, was carried out at Regeneron, Raheen Business Park, Co. Limerick.
The work was carried out between 4 and 10 July 2018, on behalf of Regeneron Ireland U.C. The work was carried out in compliance with a condition attached to planning reference number 17/1170 of Limerick City & County Council. As part of the archaeological monitoring, two fields were stripped of topsoil under supervision. The south-west field was stripped to natural boulder clay.
The north-east field had been infilled in the past with some 2m of imported material, and hence was not stripped to natural. To the depth excavated, no features or deposits of an archaeological nature were found. It had been considered a possibility that a fulacht fiadh had been buried in this field under the made ground, hence it had been recommended that monitoring be carried out during the groundworks associated with the construction of a permanent car-park. No evidence of any features or deposits of an archaeological nature were identified during monitoring. It is therefore recommended that the proposed development be allowed to proceed without any further archaeological assessment.
Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills Rd, Drogheda, Co. Louth
