2003:1559 - CLONBURREN, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon

Site name: CLONBURREN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 56:8

Licence number: 03E1197

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates

Author/Organisation Address: 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 596902m, N 728981m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.311097, -8.046487

Testing was undertaken at a proposed house site in the townland of Clonburren. A minor road to the north of the site is believed to be constructed on the route of a togher. Legend has it that St Kieran set up a commemorative cross—the Cross of Carbre Crom—in the middle of a togher which led from Clonburren to dry land at Faltia.

Four trenches were excavated by machine and hand within the area. No features or finds of archaeological interest were uncovered.