2021:076 - 2 High Street, Hundredacres East, Caherconlish, Limerick

Archaeological testing of a proposed single house development to the rear of 2, High Street, Hundredacres East, Caherconlish, Co. Limerick, within the area of the historic town and close to an unclassified castle site, located a field boundary shown on the 1844 OS map but did not encounter other archaeological features, deposits or artefacts.
It was anticipated that evidence of medieval habitation might be revealed on the site, which appears to occupy one or more medieval burgage plots extending northwards from the High Street. The boundary ditch could therefore potentially represent an original medieval plot division that continued in use into the early modern period before being removed. However no archaeological material pre-dating the later 19th century was seen and there is no evidence that this ditch is anything other than an early modern boundary. It is possible that the burgage plots were simply divided by hedges, or that the boundary was redefined on numerous occasions over the centuries and nothing survives of the original division.

Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare