County: Roscommon Site name: COOTEHALL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 7:18 Licence number: 02E1722
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 589636m, N 803889m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.984169, -8.158007
The development of seven houses and works, including the continuation of a roadway at the north side of Cootehall, on flat ground rising onto a gentle drumlin slope, was monitored.
There is a large ringfort at the edge of the site. A fulacht fiadh was excavated by Niall Gregory and another recorded several hundred metres to the south-west (Excavations 2000, No. 853, 00E0393).
All of the area to be disturbed was cleared in 9–11m-wide strips and the resultant up to 0.5m of good rich brown soil was windrowed. There were no archaeological discoveries during the monitoring.
Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo
