County: Mayo Site name: CARROWNAGLOCH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: M. Herity, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin
Site type: Field System
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 538964m, N 816010m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.089565, -8.932955
Excavation was continued during 1976 to uncover, map and investigate the prehistoric cultivated enclosure under peat in the W and S sectors of the walled enclosure already known at this site. The area uncovered in 1976 was 1500sq.m, of which 1100sq.m showed traces of cultivation ridges.
The main 1976 exposure, 115m long by 3m wide, was cut parallel to and 30m to the W of the earlier central cuttings. Here again, the main body of ridges ran E-W across the hill slope and averaged 1.5m across, continuing the pattern observed in the central cuttings in earlier seasons.
Investigation outside the enclosing wall at the N end of the main N-S cutting showed that a faint pattern of ridges ran 22m outside the wall in this sector. A similar extension of the ridge-pattern outside the enclosing wall was noted at the SW corner of the field. These two discoveries confirmed the findings of cultivation ridges to the S of and outside the wall in 1975. No small finds were made.