2004:0956 - CURRAGH SOUTH, Leitrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Leitrim Site name: CURRAGH SOUTH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LE020-003001 Licence number: 04E0761

Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 594925m, N 818197m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.112810, -8.077610

The proposed development at Curragh South will consist of four houses, access, septic tanks/percolation areas and a small marina, on the shore of Lough Allen. The site is near a church and holy well located immediately to the north. Testing was carried out in June 2004. Eight trenches were excavated by machine to a depth of 0.2–0.4m, to below the level of natural subsoil. No archaeological features or material were identified.

Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim