2011:509 - CLONMACNOISE, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly

Site name: CLONMACNOISE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: OF005-029

Licence number: E4370; C462

Author: Mark Keegan

Author/Organisation Address: vNational Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Government Buildings, The Glen, Waterford

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating: —

ITM: E 600817m, N 730599m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.325413, -7.986998

Monitoring was undertaken during May 2011 to enable works relating to the construction of a new access gate to the Nuns’ Chapel at Clonmacnoise. The new gateway will replace the existing gate to the south-west of the Nuns’ Chapel. Two limestone piers are required for the new gateway. Each pier required the hand excavation of a foundation pit, measuring 0.6m2 by 0.45m in depth. Monitoring of these excavations did not reveal any archaeological deposits or finds.