2023:065 - Raheen Business Park, Ballycummin, Limerick

Archaeological test-excavations were carried out as part of an Archaeological Impact Assessment relating to the proposed construction of a warehouse facility on a c.4.2-hectare greenfield site at Raheen Business Park, Ballycummin, Co. Limerick.

A total of five test trenches were machine-excavated at the proposed development site. Trenches 1-4 were laid out in a targeted array across the proposed Phase 1 development area to the north-eastern half of the site. Trench 5 was excavated in the centre of the site, just to the south-west of the proposed Phase 1 development area, within ground forming part of a potential Phase 2 development at the site.

Excavated trenches measured 50-120m in length, 1.8m in width and 0.35-1.35m in depth. Topsoil comprised 0.15-0.35m of moderately compact brown clayey-silt with occasional stone; this overly natural subsoil comprising light grey clay with occasional areas of peat. In some areas of the site and noted in Trenches 1 and 5, dumped spoil and modern layers of dumped rubble material overly the topsoil.

No archaeological finds, features or deposits were found during testing.