County: Cavan Site name: CLOUGHERGOOLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 39:20 Licence number: 97E0421
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 641777m, N 804782m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.990605, -7.362941
An assessment was carried out prior to the building of a bungalow and associated works in the vicinity of an area which has 'site of fort' marked on the 1876 6" OS map. The fort lay in the curve of a stream which may have fed into the fosse of the fort. The west end of the house lies some 30m east of the curve of the stream.
Three test-trenches were excavated. Trenches 1 and 2 tested the higher ground where the house and the septic tank were to be built. Topsoil was 300mm deep. It overlay a red-brown sandy clay with some stones. In places there were patches of darker red-brown natural staining. The stratigraphy was consistent in the trenches and nothing of archaeological interest was observed.
The third trench tested lower-lying ground closer to the 'fort' to investigate the presence of an outer ditch. This ground was marshy and at the base of a steep slope, and was difficult to excavate. Peat overlying natural grey-blue clay was exposed and the machine exposed a field drain which ran along the contour of the slope, then possibly draining into the stream. No material of archaeological interest was observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
