2002:1404 - MOYLAW/CROSSMOLINA, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: MOYLAW/CROSSMOLINA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 02E0596
Author: Sue Zajac
Author/Organisation Address: 1 Chapel Lane, Killala, Co. Mayo
Site type: Excavation - miscllenaeous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 509870m, N 817209m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.096072, -9.377892
Monitoring of topsoil removal took place over 1.5km during the realignment of the N59 west of Crossmolina town. Three separate areas of heat-fractured stone consistent with the remains of levelled fulachta fiadh were uncovered. Further evidence of fulachta fiadh was found outside the road-take. A hollow-based flint arrowhead was found in a disturbed context close to an area of heat-fractured stone in Carrowkilleen townland. The final phase of the monitoring is expected to take place in 2003.