County: Mayo Site name: CROSSMOLINA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 29:39, 29:51 Licence number: 01E0530
Author: Christine Grant
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 513937m, N 817607m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.100342, -9.315846
Excavation took place on the Ballycastle Road of Crossmolina town in advance of pipe-laying for a sewerage scheme. The excavation took place within the public road corridor between the castle (29:39) and the church and graveyard (29:51). Several earlier road surfaces were uncovered. None of these surfaces contained definitive dating material. Below the level of the earliest road a small number of features were excavated, including a layer containing organic material and several small pits. A few fragments of badly corroded iron artefacts were recovered from one of the pits. A significant amount of animal bone was also recovered from the lower levels. Proper dating of this material will be dependent on radiocarbon determinations.
Crossard, Kilnaboy, Co. Clare
