County: Limerick Site name: Raheen Business Park, Ballycummin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 23E0102
Author: Graeme Laidlow & Seán Shanahan; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 554936m, N 651922m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.616668, -8.665468
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.
Unit 39a, Hebron Business Park, Hebron Road, Kilkenny
