No foul play is suspected following the discovery of a woman's body in Co Limerick yesterday.

A post mortem was carried out this evening.

The body was found at the rear of a house, at Ballygibba at Kilmallock, at around 2:30pm yesterday afternoon.

The state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy earlier carried out an examination of the scene where the body was found.

The death is being treated as sudden.