County: Offaly Site name: PARK, Kilcormac
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 31:13 Licence number: 99E0264 ext.
Author: Dominic Delany
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 618224m, N 714028m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.176419, -7.727394
A second phase of monitoring was carried out at this site on 3 and 4 July 2000. The monitored area comprised eight house sites on the north side of the main service road; the stratigraphy was similar to that described in the Phase 1 monitoring report (Excavations 1999, 261–2). It should be noted that the subcircular features, which were tentatively described as possible post-holes in the initial report, are undoubtedly naturally occurring features. These were encountered when a portion of the boulder clay was exposed during topsoil-stripping for the main service road (Phase 1). However, subsequent excavations for house foundations (Phases 1 and 2) indicated that these features occurred across the entire site and represent pockets of subsoil in the pitted boulder clay. No archaeological material was discovered.
31 Ashbrook, Oranmore, Co. Galway
