County: Roscommon Site name: BOYLE: Military Road, Knocknashee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 6:68 Licence number: 00E0426
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 580347m, N 802762m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.973768, -8.299559
The associated groundworks for piping for a development at Knocknashee, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, required monitoring. The development site, on the south side of Military Road, lies midway between the Cistercian Boyle Abbey and King House, at a distance of about 130m from each.
Monitoring of the cutting of a 29m trench, in three continuous sections of 11m, 4m and 14m, took place on 6 December 2000. It ran from the backfilled ground behind King House to a pipe of the Boyle town sewerage system, which crossed a back garden in an east–west direction. The trench was 0.6m wide and 0.7–0.9m deep. All this ground proved to be builder’s rubble and hardcore over the underlying glacial deposits, which included some smaller rocks.
There were no archaeological discoveries in any of the three trench sections opened.
Bóthar An Corran, Keash, Co. Sligo
