County: Roscommon Site name: TERMON ROAD/PLUNKETT AVENUE, BOYLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 6:68 Licence number: 04E1305
Author: Martin A. Timoney, B—thar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 579955m, N 802363m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.970170, -8.305503
It is proposed to build a pair of semi-detached houses in the corner garden of a terraced house on a minor street in Boyle. The site was tested on 8 October 2004 by two trenches, 2m wide, one east-west across the footprint of the building and the other south, across the rear garden, to test the rear driveway. Garden soil 0.2-0.45m in depth was found to overlay the undisturbed natural glacial deposits. A modern rubbish pit was found in the centre of the east-west trench; the objects included metal, crockery, brick and a piece of the side of a tea-chest. An area with a lot of lime or cement and a concentration of small stones was found in the topsoil, possibly from building the adjacent roadside wall. There were several items of modern rubbish thrown in from the pavement and these were found near the top of the topsoil of this urban garden, the grounds of which were landscaped some decades ago at the time of the establishment of the council housing estate. There were no archaeological discoveries.
