County: Sligo Site name: MAGHERABOY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1063
Author: Frank Ryan, on behalf of Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 570462m, N 835574m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.268134, -8.453427
This site, located during field-walking prior to test-trenching of the Sligo Inner Relief Road, is defined by a low circular bank approximately 33m in diameter. Three trenches were dug, one outside the bank, one across and one inside the bank. The outside trench revealed no archaeological evidence. A fosse, measuring 2.6m in width and at least 1.1m in depth, was recorded on the outside of the bank. The trench in the centre of the enclosure revealed a small suboval feature, measuring 1.08m by 0.6m by 0.2m in depth, which contained heated stones, flecks of charcoal and fragments of burnt bone.
Although test-trenching revealed the existence of archaeological activity here, the nature of that activity, whether burial or occupational, has yet to be established.
28 Cabinteely Way, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
