2000:0052 - BALLYSHEENBEG, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: BALLYSHEENBEG

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 52:7, 52:8, 52:9, 52:10 Licence number: 99E0671 ext.

Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 546114m, N 667873m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.759222, -8.798340

Monitoring of excavation related to a single house development took place within the zone of archaeological potential for a number of monuments, including standing stones and a megalithic tomb. Pre-development testing had previously been carried out by Christine Grant (Excavations 1999, 13). The entire area of the house and related services was excavated by machine to the level of undisturbed natural. No archaeological remains were uncovered.

Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim