County: Sligo Site name: Connaughton Road, Sligo
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0959
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 569258m, N 836405m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.275521, -8.472008
Sligo Borough Council proposes to build residential units on a site at Connaughton Road, overlooking the town. The site is c. 40m west of the ‘Green Fort’, a 17th-century star-shaped fort. The projected line of the town defences erected by Jacobite forces in the summer of 1689 extends across the northern part of the site. In July 2000 James Eogan tested the site (Excavations 2000, No. 902, 00E0395) and found evidence that the 1689 town defences extend across the site. It was recommended that a buffer zone be maintained across the site to preserve the remains of the defences and that all topsoil-stripping and groundworks on the site be monitored.
A 5m-wide buffer zone was maintained along the south side of the projected line of the defences, on which no construction or construction traffic will encroach. All topsoil-stripping outside this zone was monitored, the results of which suggested that nothing of archaeological interest survived in the development area.
Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.
