County: Sligo Site name: GRANGE EAST (Site C)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0787
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 564077m, N 833739m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.251235, -8.551232
Three sites in a line within an area 180m by 60m were tested in one operation. The location is east of the Glen, a rift valley that runs along the south side of Knocknarea. Site C is just outside the eastern edge of a boxed-off area for SMR 14:175–182 but there is no visible archaeology within the field, which has been ploughed many times in the past.
The site was tested by two parallel east–west-running trenches. The 0.08m-deep sod overlay a brown soil and under that were gravel deposits with some areas of protruding limestone, perhaps the broken surface of the underlying limestone bedrock. The maximum depth of soil was 0.35m. Only a few pieces of modern crockery were noted in the topsoil.
There were no indications of archaeology in these trenches.
Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo
