County: Roscommon Site name: CLOONSHANNAGH II
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0532
Author: John Ó Néill, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 581555m, N 764920m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.633759, -8.278886
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. Investigations on the eastern side of the bog were carried out under this licence.
The cupola of the raised bog at Cloonshannagh is largely intact, although the eastern margins appear to have been heavily cut away, with the lagg area having been largely drained.
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. As the conditions were particularly wet during testing, the trench began to collapse in on itself almost immediately and was discontinued. The exposed sections had indicated the same hummock–hollow system over fen peats as noted on the western side of the bog (Excavations 2000, No. 851).
No archaeological features were noted.
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