2025:086 - Adare Manor, Adare, Limerick

Monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of a transformer cabin and cabling trench connecting it with photovoltaic panels at Adare Manor, Adare, Co. Limerick was carried out. Natural was not exposed. An area was stripped of sod to a depth of between 0.2-0.3m and measured 11m by 4.5m with topsoil exposed and covered with aggregate. Subsequently, within the centre of this area, an east to west aligned 1.5m wide trench was excavated to a depth of c. 1-1.1m below present ground level.
Topsoil measuring between 0.5m to 0.65m was removed onto made ground (0.45m to 0.6m) which had inclusions of large stones, a metal pipe, red bricks and lumps of tarmac throughout. 

The main cable trench was excavated along the eastern boundary of the site. It measured 1-2m in width and was excavated to a depth of 0.6-1m, with each row of panels connected by a shallow and
narrow, 0.4m wide and 0.2-0.35m deep trench. Modern rubbish, including plastic bottles, was noted in removed spoils. No archaeological features or finds were encountered.