County: Roscommon Site name: Clooneybeirne
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0509
Author: Leo Morahan, 52 Phoenix Court, Ennis, Co. Clare.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 587491m, N 764214m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.627591, -8.189096
A development of 47 houses to the east of Roscommon town had fifteen test-trenches cut in advance of any works. The large field was outside of the town limits but within 100m of an old avenue reputedly connected with Roscommon Castle. No archaeology was found in any of the trenches, apart from part of a fulacht fiadh (No. 1566 below, 03E1168) in one trench situated on low ground to the south.
