County: Offaly Site name: CLOGHMOYLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0883
Author: Ellen O'Carroll, The Archaeology Company, 17 Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 604349m, N 692235m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.980852, -7.935228
Pre-development testing was carried out at a development site in the townland of Cloghmoyle, Shinrone, Co. Offaly. The greenfield site is close to a fortified house (SMR 42:24), listed as 'Oldham's Tower' on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837). It lies west of the site of a 16th-century castle (SMR 42:25) and south-east of the site of a medieval church (SMR 42:26). The immediate landscape is dominated by a number of high eskers, some of which show signs of quarrying.
The proposed development comprises the construction of two detached dwellings and twelve semi-detached dwellings and associated ancillary works. In addition, the client proposes to remove an existing walled dwelling and outhouses on the site.
Seven parallel trenches (oriented northwest/south-east) were excavated. A search of the spoil material was also carried out. No archaeological material was identified.
Testing showed that the south-eastern portion of the site had been disturbed considerably by quarrying. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
