Knockadoon Neolithic/Bronze Age cliff-edge site

Description

On rock outcrop, on SW slope of Knockadoon Peninsula, overlooking Lough Gur 50m to west. Neolithic & Bronze Age settlement site (Site 10/ SMR No. LI032-022003-) excavated in 1954 by Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick. Site 10 is an enclosed habitation site dating from the late Neolithic (Beaker period). Initially it was an open settlement associated with a poorly defined house. In the second phase the site was protected by a double-kerbed wall which cut off the habitation from the rest of the peninsula. Monument consists of a semi-circular shape area measuring internally 31m NW-SE x 20m E-W, bounded on the E and W sides by outcrops of limestone, with double-kerbed wall visible running across the N side of the site between the outcropping rock. The prehistoric site is on private land and there is no access to the monument without the landowner's permission. For more detailed description of the Neolithic site, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=LI032-022003-