County: Mayo Site name: Drumrevagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 39:79 Licence number: 03E0896
Author: Richard Gillespie, Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 524107m, N 813127m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.061693, -9.159270
Up to 3m of a large overgrown enclosure with an inner bank, a ditch and an outer bank was to be destroyed during road construction. However, the plans were altered to preserve the monument in situ, leaving a minimum buffer of 4m between the outer edge of the site and the development (i.e. the N26 road construction).
The area beside the enclosure was tested by opening six trial-trenches at 10m intervals across the development area. These trenches radiated out from the east side of the enclosure and were excavated to undisturbed natural subsoil and rock using a mechanical digger with a toothless bucket. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified during the course of this testing.
