County: Roscommon Site name: ROSCOMMON: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 39:43 Licence number: 99E0294
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Building
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 587454m, N 764442m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.629638, -8.189661
An assessment of an extension to an existing commercial premises at Main Street, Roscommon, was carried out in June 1999. The site is close to a former church site and to the west of the site of St Comman's Vat. It has also been reported that remains were unearthed on the present site during construction in the 1950s, and a headstone of early 18th-century date has been incorporated into the rear wall of the premises.
Three test-trenches were excavated in the area to be disturbed by the proposed extension at the rear of the existing premises. Below the surface an extensive and consistent spread of mortared stone was discovered lying directly on the natural boulder clay. This debris represented demolition, probably of a 19th-century building, and most likely destroyed any archaeological deposits that existed on the site.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
