County: Clare Site name: DRUMQUIN (BGE 3/10/2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1152
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 537405m, N 683071m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.894859, -8.930263
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. A single oval pit (measuring 2.3m north–south by 0.7m and 0.4m deep) with steep sides and a concave base was excavated. The fill was a loose, mid- to dark brown, fine silt and gravel with frequent inclusions of small stones (diameter typically 0.05–0.1m) and occasional larger ones (diameter typically 0.2–0.3m). Occasional charcoal flecking was also observed in the fill. Very fresh fragments of animal bone were recovered from the pit.
The loose compaction of the pit fill, combined with the presence of fresh fragments of animal bone, indicates a relatively recent date. Navvy activity, associated with the construction of the Ennis to Galway railway line (75m to the north-west) in the 19th century may explain the origin of this feature.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
