1994:198 - CLONMACNOISE, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: CLONMACNOISE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: —
Author: Heather A. King
Author/Organisation Address: Skidoo, Ballyboughal, Co. Dublin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 601050m, N 730827m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.327700, -7.984228
Monitoring was carried out at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly, on foundation trenches being dug for a new house to the south-west of the monastic site of Clonmacnoise. The site is located due south of the Old Burial Ground at Clonmacnoise and on the south-facing slope of the esker ridge which encloses the monastic site. The foundation trenches were dug to a depth of c. 1.2m and the stratigraphy consisted of c. 0.5m of sod and brown soil above natural yellow sand. No archaeological finds or features were noted.