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2001:929 - CARROWBEG, Swinford, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: CARROWBEG, Swinford

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 62:42, 43 and 44

Licence number: 01E0746

Author: Leo Morahan

Author/Organisation Address: 52 Phoenix Court, Ennis, Co. Clare

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 537112m, N 799889m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.944501, -8.957925

Nine houses were proposed at this site on the Foxford Road, Swinford. There are three possible enclosures on considerably higher ground in the vicinity, but none within 50m of the development. A stream enclosing much of the northern half of the development site had a cornmill on its southern bank shown on the 1911 OS map. Monitoring of groundworks at the site failed to uncover any trace of the mill, nor any features or artefacts of antiquity. The ground here had been considerably disturbed.


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