2003:1568 - COOLTEIGE, Roscommon
County: Roscommon
Site name: COOLTEIGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 35:65 and 35:67
Licence number: 03E0749
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 588430m, N 769823m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.678015, -8.175111
The proposed development site at Coolteige, Four-Mile-House, is outside Roscommon town on the main Tulsk/Roscommon Road. It is to consist of a house, access, garage, septic tank and percolation area. It is near two ringforts. Testing was carried out on 7 June 2003. Five trenches measuring 10m by 1m were excavated across the site. No archaeological features or finds were uncovered in any of them.