County: Longford Site name: CAMLISK BEG/CAMLISK MOR/ EDGEWORTHSTOWN/GARRYANDREW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1550
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 623959m, N 772374m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.700520, -7.637155
Testing was carried out along the proposed route of the N4 Edgeworthstown inner relief road. A total of 6196m of trenches were excavated. The stratigraphy over the road corridor comprised 0.27-0.7m of topsoil and/or ploughsoil overlying natural subsoil and the ground was quite boggy over most of the proposed route. Sited along the eastern road corridor is 'Clover Well'. This comprises a rectangular water trough and a slab-covered source to the rear. The main structure of the well is concealed beneath a large rectangular limestone slab, which measures 1.7m long and 1m wide. The well could be earlier in date than the trough, which dates from the 18th or 19th century.
Five sites of potential were identified during testing. These were a burnt mound (Tinnyarr 001), a series of pits filled with charcoal and burnt stone (Tinnyarr 002-004) and a deposit of burnt material (Tinnyarr 005). The burnt mound (7.9m by 9.4m) was located outside the road-take and may be preserved in situ. Tinnyarr 002-004 will be impacted upon by the road. Tinnyarr 005 was a small deposit of charcoal-rich soil with burnt stone (0.96m by 0.75m and 20mm deep). No artefacts were recovered from the site, which was fully resolved during testing.
