County: Mayo Site name: CARROWNAGLOGH td
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Dr. Michael Herity, Department of Archaeology/U.C.D.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 535965m, N 819009m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.116146, -8.979423
Continuing a long-term programme of the investigation of prehistoric field-systems, archaeological investigation was carried out at two separate locations in North Mayo, Carrownaglogh and Glenulra, during July and August, 1970.
At Carrownaglogh an area of 252 square metres of bog was dug away to reveal stone-built structures built and used before the blanket peat began to grow over the site about 1000BC. A total of 132 square metres were removed in investigating the course of a series of field walls enclosing at least three separate fields in the south-facing slope of a low knoll in association with which a flint knife had been found in 1963. The complete outline of an oblong field roughly 15,000 square metres in extent was recovered in which traces of field-clearance indicating tillage were to be seen.
At another site a mile away in the same townland, 120 square metres of peat were removed to reveal a roughly oval heap of stones 22 x 12.5 metres which enclosed a small hollow roughly 4 x 3 metres.
The excavation of this site will be continued in the 1971 season.
