County: Sligo Site name: CARROWMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0982
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 565949m, N 833890m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.252719, -8.522516
Stefan Bergh monitored excavations for an extension to Inishfree House in 2000 (Excavations 2000, No. 877, 99E0151). Nothing of archaeological significance was observed. The house stands on the same ridge as the Carrowmore passage grave cemetery.
In 2001 it was proposed to build a further extension to the existing house on its east side and to build a garage along the eastern boundary. These areas were tested by opening four trenches. Three of them were located in areas where landscaping has recently taken place. Evidence for redeposition of soil was exposed in Trenches 1–3, the latter two trenches lying in a part of the site where a natural rise was reduced in the past. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in these trenches. Trench 4, closest to the existing house, produced evidence for two amorphous, shallow, cut features, filled with loose brown clay. A fragment of brick was found in the fill of one. They were not of archaeological significance.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
