County: Roscommon Site name: VESNOY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 23:171 Licence number: 98E0453
Author: Gerry Walsh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 593804m, N 781192m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.780277, -8.094001
Pre-development testing was undertaken on the site of a proposed development in Vesnoy, Strokestown Co. Roscommon, in October 1998. The proposed development site lies within the designated archaeological area of a ringfort.
Five test-trenches were excavated by machine. Trench 1 was dug along the western boundary of the proposed development site adjacent to the ringfort. It ran in a north-south direction and measured 25m x 2m. The sod/topsoil layer directly overlay the boulder clay. Stratigraphy was similar in all the other trenches.
No archaeological features or small finds were recovered from any of the trenches.
Rathbawn Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
