County: Offaly Site name: CLONMACNOISE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Con Manning, National Parks & Monuments Branch, Office of Public Works
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 600750m, N 730727m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.326802, -7.988731
The area of a proposed toilet development in the steeple garden to the west of the graveyard was excavated. Post-medieval activity only uncovered here.
Trial cuttings further north within the steeple garden, where further development may take place, uncovered layers rich in animal bones at depths of 1-2m. Some sherds of medieval pottery were found in the upper layer but no finds were recovered from the lowest layer.
