County: Sligo Site name: ROSSES UPPER, Rosses Point
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0278
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 563357m, N 840303m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.310158, -8.563080
This development of thirteen small houses is on a site measuring 0.75ha on the south side of the Rosses Point peninsula, opposite Oyster Island. This land was part of the back gardens of houses of the 19th-century seaside village of Rosses Point.
A major deep trench from earlier works was backfilled to facilitate the work. Soil-stripping for the proposed road and footpaths and the southern of two semi-detached house sites was monitored over four days in April 2002. The topsoil was rich in organic material. In the deeper cutting, reaching to 1.4m at the northern end, what seemed to be glacial deposits with some rocks up to 0.6m across were encountered. There were no archaeological deposits or finds of any sort.
Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo
