County: Roscommon Site name: DRISHOGE, Carrick-on-Shannon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1597
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 592520m, N 799023m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.940493, -8.113911
The site of the proposed development at Drishoge, a supermarket and parking facilities, access and services, is on the N4 Sligo–Dublin road on the outskirts of Carrick-on-Shannon on the Roscommon side of the Shannon. The closest known archaeological monument is SMR 11:22, a ringfort, situated 300m to the south-west. Six test-trenches were excavated by machine to the level of undisturbed natural in December 2004. There was no evidence of archaeological features or finds in any of the trenches excavated.
Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
