County: Leitrim Site name: CARRICK-ON-SHANNON: Townparks
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0070
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 594385m, N 799543m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.945188, -8.085522
Testing was undertaken at a proposed development beside the N4 town bypass at Townparks, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The settlement of the town dates to the early 17th century, although there are some 16th-century references to a fording point on the River Shannon. The development is within the limits of the designated area of archaeological potential (SMR 31:05) and in an area of the town that was subjected to reclamation works in the late 1970s.
Four trenches were excavated by machine within the general area. This revealed a c. 0.87m layer of reclamation fill overlying a shallow depth of peat. The latter, which lay directly upon a grey marl subsoil, represents the pre-reclamation ground surface. No features or artefacts of archaeological interest were uncovered.
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