2001:902 - CORDARRAGH, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: CORDARRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 80:29
Licence number: 01E0726
Author: Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Purcell House, Claregalway Road, Oranmore, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 534136m, N 788539m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.842159, -9.000803
Pre-development testing of the site of a proposed dwelling-house and ancillary site works was carried out on 31 July 2001 at Cordarragh townland, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo. The proposed development is within the constraint area of an enclosure, in a field of pasture sloping north-west/south-east. The adjacent enclosure, in the field to the south-south-west, was obscured by trees and bushes.
Five trial-trenches were excavated. The stratigraphy revealed consisted of natural subsoil and occasional bedrock (in Trench E only) below the topsoil. This represented natural undisturbed stratigraphy. Two sherds of modern pottery and one blackware sherd were recovered from the topsoil during the testing.