County: Sligo Site name: CARROWMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0944
Author: Mary Henry
Site type: Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 568844m, N 833533m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.249696, -8.478065
A trackway was tested at Carrowmore, Co. Sligo. The works were carried out as part of pre-construction testing on the Sligo Inner Relief Road. The site was identified on the first edition OS map (1837). The trackway was of post-medieval date, and its line extended across the road-take for the proposed Inner Relief Road. Four test-trenches were opened on the road-take to establish the conclusive presence and nature of the feature.
The trackway was only revealed in two of the trenches. It consisted of a rough stone surface constructed of small to medium-sized angular stones that had been compacted into the underlying raised compacted bed of coarse gravel. The trackway ranged in width from 2.2m to 3.1m. The stone surface and the underlying raised bed of gravel had a combined height of 120–160mm. Several sherds of post-medieval pottery were found amongst the stones in the trackway. The trackway was disturbed in places by a series of modern cultivation furrows.
Although the trackway was only identified in two of the test-trenches opened, it appeared to have extended across the road-take.
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