2000:0861 - MONKSLAND SEWERAGE SCHEME, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: MONKSLAND SEWERAGE SCHEME

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0014

Author: Martin E. Byrne

Site type: Burnt spread

Period/Dating: Iron Age (800 BC-AD 339)

ITM: E 601908m, N 741347m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.422237, -7.971287

Archaeological monitoring associated with the Monksland Sewerage Extension Scheme, which commenced in 1999, continued during September 2000. No additional features or artefacts of archaeological interest were uncovered during this final phase of monitoring.

An area of burning reported in Excavations 1999, 271, produced a 14C date of 355–290 BC.

31 Millford, Athgarvan, Co. Kildare