County: Monaghan Site name: LISSARAW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 13:20 Licence number: 99E0736
Author: Malachy Conway, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 667466m, N 829126m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.206602, -6.965831
An assessment at the site of a proposed dwelling in Lissaraw townland, Co. Monaghan, was carried out on 21 December 1999. The site is 2km south of Monaghan town and 150m north of a ringfort.
Two assessment trenches were excavated across the front and rear foundation lines of the proposed dwelling, and a third was excavated across the proposed location of an associated septic tank north-west of the site of the proposed dwelling.
Trench 1, along the line of the proposed septic tank, was 12m long (north-west/south-east) by 1.2m. Dark brown topsoil, 0.3m deep, overlay mottled, orange/grey limestone boulder clay.
Trench 2, along the northern foundation line of the proposed dwelling, was 20m long (west-east) by 1.2m and was excavated to a total depth of 0.5m. Dark brown topsoil on average 0.25m deep overlay mottled, orange/grey limestone boulder clay. A single stone-filled field drain, 0.46m wide, ran diagonally (south-west/north-east) through the eastern section of the trench.
Trench 3, along the southern foundation line of the proposed dwelling, was 14m long (west-east) by 1.2m and was excavated to a total depth of 0.5m. Dark brown topsoil on average 0.25m deep overlay mottled, orange/grey limestone boulder clay.
The assessment did not reveal any soils, features or finds of archaeological significance.
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