2000:0738 - SHANVAGHERA, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: SHANVAGHERA

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 00E0056

Author: Paula King

Author/Organisation Address: Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 541670m, N 786227m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.822290, -8.885896

Testing was undertaken on the route of the Knock–Claremorris Bypass at the location of a possible fulacht fiadh. The test area measured 40m by 80m. A mechanical digger was used to strip the area of sod and topsoil. No finds, features or deposits of archaeological significance were present.