County: Sligo Site name: SLIGO: 12 Stephen Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0330
Author: Ruairí Ó Baoill, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 568452m, N 835852m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.270503, -8.484326
A pre-development archaeological assessment was carried out at a site at the rear of No. 12 Stephen Street, Sligo, on 16 September 1997. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed during the investigation.
All stratigraphy and artefacts appear to date from the 19th century and later. It seems that the stratigraphy encountered probably reflects the deliberate dumping and infilling of the intertidal region on the northern side of the River Garvoge, as Sligo further expanded in the 19th century. This town expansion was given further substance by the development of Stephen Street in the early 19th century.
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