County: Sligo Site name: CALTRAGH (Site 2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0817
Author: Sébastien Joubert
Site type: Field system
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 569039m, N 834820m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.261266, -8.475208
During the course of a field study commissioned by Sligo Corporation in relation to the proposed Inner Relief Road, a large amount of boulders was noticed above ground level in a field that will be affected by the road project. Given their location within a Neolithic megalithic landscape, the presence of boulders of this nature required further investigation. Two test-trenches were manually opened within this area on 25 and 26 October 2000.
The first trench extended across one half of the exposed boulders. It was 2m by 2m. The second was c. 5m to the north-west of the first and was 1m square. No definite archaeological deposits were discovered in the trenches. Nevertheless, the base of the boulders was exposed within a deposit that could belong to a prehistoric level.
Further archaeological probing is being undertaken at this location. It appears that the boulders identified formed part of a Neolithic field system.
Seamount, Upper Rosses, Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
