2001:923 - RATHFRAN, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: RATHFRAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 15:3

Licence number: 01E1105 ext.

Author: Sue Zajac

Author/Organisation Address: 1 Chapel Lane, Killala, Co. Mayo

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 518967m, N 833160m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.240876, -9.243143

Pre-development testing was carried out prior to construction of a private dwelling. The development site was within an area of archaeological constraint, north-west of Rathfran Abbey, a Dominican friary.

Four test-trenches were excavated by mechanical digger. All were archaeologically sterile.