County: Mayo Site name: MAIN STREET, BALLINROBE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0041
Author: Richard Crumlish, 61 An Cladrach, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 525554m, N 784151m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.801578, -9.130119
Pre-development testing was carried out between 15 and 23 January 2004 at a site in advance of its development at Main Street, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. Testing was necessary because the proposed development was within the archaeological constraint for Ballinrobe town (SMR 118:22).
The testing comprised the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 4m, 3.5m, 16m, 15.5m and 8.3m long respectively and were 1-1.8m wide and 0.1-1.8m deep. The stratigraphy revealed was rubble fills, topsoil and features (a flag floor, mortared rubble, red-brick walls, wall foundations) associated with the existing buildings on the site, above sterile natural subsoils. One of the walls contained a reused architectural fragment that was dressed with 19th-century horizontal tooling and had a stop-chamfer. Only modern artefacts were recovered.
