County: Roscommon Site name: ELPHIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 16:127 Licence number: 01E0704
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services
Site type: Kiln
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 586982m, N 789218m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.852270, -8.197849
Pre-development testing took place for eight townhouses within the town of Elphin, near the cathedral. Eight trenches were excavated to a depth of 0.9–1.4m. The majority of the excavated material was redeposited from the construction of the nearby community centre and consisted mostly of refuse dating from the middle of the 20th century. No archaeological material was located, except in Trench 6. Here a stone-lined cut feature filled with fire-reddened clay was clipped by the machine. It was partially exposed by hand and appears to be the remains of a kiln of some description. It was found to be 1.6m in width and up to 1m deep, with the burnt material bounded by large stones. The majority of the feature remains intact, and without further excavation a definite date cannot be assigned to it.
Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
