County: Mayo Site name: GARRANKEEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0214
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Designed landscape - tree-ring
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 525868m, N 821187m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.134362, -9.134356
Archaeological assessment was carried out at Garrankeel, Ballina, Co. Mayo, in advance of a proposed industrial development. The site consisted of two low banks at right angles to each other, identified in the course of an Environmental Impact Statement.
Two trenches were excavated. Trench 1, 3.5m x 1m, was placed across the eastern bank. Sod was found to overlie naturally derived gravel, which overlay natural, yellow/brown boulder clay. No trace of a ditch was recovered, and the interior contained a layer of stony, brown clay in which were two iron handles of a bucket of probable 19th-century date. The feature appears to be a 19th-century tree ring, built as part of Belleek Castle demesne.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
