County: Mayo Site name: CORDARRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 80:29 Licence number: 01E0726
Author: Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 534136m, N 788539m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.842159, -9.000803
Pre-development testing of the site of a proposed dwelling-house and ancillary site works was carried out on 31 July 2001 at Cordarragh townland, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo. The proposed development is within the constraint area of an enclosure, in a field of pasture sloping north-west/south-east. The adjacent enclosure, in the field to the south-south-west, was obscured by trees and bushes.
Five trial-trenches were excavated. The stratigraphy revealed consisted of natural subsoil and occasional bedrock (in Trench E only) below the topsoil. This represented natural undisturbed stratigraphy. Two sherds of modern pottery and one blackware sherd were recovered from the topsoil during the testing.
Purcell House, Claregalway Road, Oranmore, Co. Galway
