Knockadoon Cliff-Edge Enclosure LI032-022007-

Description

On cliff-edge pasture, on west-facing slope of terrace, above low rock cliff-face on Knockadoon Peninsula, 100m east of the current shoreline of Lough Gur and Garret Island. Cliff-edge enclosure (Site 12) lies within a complex Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement that was discovered during a campaign of archaeological excavation over 18 seasons led by Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick. Monument consists of an oval-shaped cliff-edge enclosure measuring 26.5m N-S by 24m E-W enclosed by a stone and earthen bank. Excavated in 1954, Site 12 was never written up by Ó Ríordáin because of his untimely death. The pottery recovered from the excavation was largely ‘Western Neolithic (Class I)’ . On that basis a Neolithic date (c. 3000 BC) was proposed for the enclosure. The monument is on private land and there is no access to the monument without the landowner’s permission. For more detailed description of the monument, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=LI032-022007-