County: Roscommon Site name: CLOONSHANNAGH I
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0530
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 581255m, N 764920m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.633748, -8.283421
Assessments were carried out at a number of sites with archaeological potential along the route of a proposed realignment of the N5 between Scramoge and Cloonmore. At Cloonshannagh, test-trenches were opened perpendicular to the line of the road at the margins of a raised bog, to test for the presence of archaeological features. This licence covered investigations on the western side of the bog.
The cupola of the raised bog at Cloonshannagh is largely intact, although there was some evidence of older drains on the surface. The lagg area is currently being exploited for machine-cutting of turf, and a number of exposed sections through the cupola were visible on both sides of the bog.
On the western side, a number of the exposed sections were cleaned up and examined for evidence of archaeological features. A test-trench was opened across the cupola of the raised bog, perpendicular to the line of the road and close to the western margin. It revealed that up to 1.7m of sphagnum peats were present. These formed a hummock–hollow system, over 0.5m of fen peats and a further 0.5m of alder carr peats.
No archaeological features were noted.
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