County: Sligo Site name: SLIGO: Connaughton Road CarPark
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0509
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 569173m, N 836181m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.273503, -8.473292
Sligo Corporation proposes to construct a carpark to the rear of the Model Arts School, overlooking the town on Connaughton Road. The site is c. 70m south of the ‘Green Fort’, a 17th-century star-shaped fort.
Three test-trenches were mechanically excavated. A 65m-long trench was excavated east–west across the site; nothing of archaeological significance was found, confirming the historical and cartographic evidence that this part of the town was agricultural land up to the present. Two further test-trenches were excavated running north from the rear of the Model Arts School, with similar results.
Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
