2001:925 - ROSMINDLE, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: ROSMINDLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 76:19
Licence number: 01E0107
Author: Billy Quinn, ASU Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Purcell House, Oranmore, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 493490m, N 787710m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.827977, -9.617920
Pre-development testing of a site at Rosmindle, Co. Mayo, was carried out on 28 February 2001. The site is within the constraint area for an enclosure.
The proposed development was in a sloping field on a small headland jutting into Clew Bay. The site affords good views of Castleaffy Strand to the north-east and Croagh Patrick to the south. Four trial-trenches were excavated which measured 10–25m in length by 0.9–1.1m in width by 0.4m in depth.
The stratigraphy exposed consisted of a sod and topsoil overlying an orange clay layer and, in Trench 4, a dark brown peat. No finds or features of interest were noted.