2021:753 - KILTIMAGH, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: KILTIMAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 21E0804
Author: Patrick Walsh
Author/Organisation Address: Murneen South, Claremorris, Co Mayo
Site type: Burial ground
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 533969m, N 789222m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.848270, -9.003493
Given the proximity of the proposed upgrade of the football pitches to the burial ground/graveyard on the grounds of St Louis School, Kiltimagh, licensed pre-development testing was required. Topsoil was consistent throughout the field, mostly to a depth of 0.2m. It was clear post-testing that this ground had been levelled with a bulldozer to make the football pitch. The natural subsoil was a very compacted orange/brown roughly sorted soil. Field drains were noted running north-south along the length of the pitch.