2002:1410 - WESTPORT, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo Site name: WESTPORT

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0774

Author: Richard Gillespie

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 500246m, N 784684m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.802131, -9.514347

All ground disturbance on the Westport Main Drainage Scheme was monitored. Several areas of archaeological interest have been uncovered in Rossbeg, Deerpark East, Attireesh and Gortaroe townlands. These were resolved under separate licences: 01E0231, 01E0232, 01E0562, 01E0563, 01E0650 and 01E1042 (Excavations 2001, Nos 927, 926, 906, 907, 911, 912), and 01E1042 ext. (No. 1396, Excavations 2002).

Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo