County: Sligo Site name: CARROWMURRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1740
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 565949m, N 833890m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.252719, -8.522516
A spread of charcoal-enriched clay, burnt stone and charcoal was revealed in the ESB cable trench monitored under licence 02E1431 (No. 1645, Excavations 2002). It was uncovered at 0.5–0.6m below current ground level. The ESB trench in this location was oriented east–west, and the burnt deposit extended 4m along the trench, continuing both north and south beyond the limit of the 1m-wide trench. The deposit was found to fill a shallow cut with sloping sides and a flat base, 0.2–0.4m deep. It contained no finds or animal bones. No other features were revealed. The burnt deposit did not appear to be fulacht material. No datable evidence was retrieved during the excavation.
Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
