2025:151 - Martinstown, Kilmallock, Limerick
County: Limerick
Site name: Martinstown, Kilmallock
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 25E0496
Author: Magda Lyne, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 567233m, N 628033m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.402838, -8.481532
The site at Martinstown Stud, Martinstown, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, underwent an archaeological assessment; this included test excavations.
The site consists of a grassed field and is in proximity to an archaeological monument, an enclosure (LI048-094—-) located c. 132m to the southwest. Test trenching was recommended to the client to inform the planning process.
Four test trenches were excavated. Each trench measured 1.8m in width, and were excavated to a depth of between 0.3m and 0.65m. Topsoil consisted of brownish-yellow sandy clay with some stones and this was removed onto natural orangey-yellow sandy clay, speckled in places and more clayey at the north-east portion of the site.
No features of archaeological significance were exposed; however, agricultural furrows, modern linear drains and possible former field boundaries were uncovered.