County: Sligo Site name: CALTRAGH (Sites 3, 4 and 5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0818
Author: Sébastien Joubert
Site type: Earthwork and Field system
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 569039m, N 834820m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.261267, -8.475208
During the course of a field study commissioned by Sligo Corporation in relation to the proposed Inner Relief Road, two raised linear features were identified at ground level. They were 10m apart and ran parallel to each other in a north-eastern direction. Two test-trenches were manually opened on 1 and 2 November 2000.
The first trench was 6m by 1m and was orientated east–west. A modern stone/cobbled path was exposed 0.15m below ground level. It was 1.7m wide and comprised predominantly small to medium-sized rounded and sub-angular stones. Three distinctive layers of the path were exposed. This feature ran towards the north, where it dipped into a hollow with embanked sides, dropping in elevation to meet a sunken laneway.
The second trench had a T-shape. It was 4m north–south by 1m and 3.75m long east–west by 1m. It was opened along the main axis of the second raised linear bank. A drystone wall was exposed within the trench. It was 2.5m wide and extended in a north–south direction. It was sealed by a peat-like material.
The first raised bank identified appeared to be associated with the modern laneway, while the second was part of a large field system already identified in adjoining fields.
Seamount, Upper Rosses, Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
