County: Roscommon Site name: CARTRON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1504
Author: Leo Morahan, Kilrush Road, Kildysert, Co. Clare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 563235m, N 796969m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.920780, -8.559680
Eight trenches were opened here in advance of a private house development, which has a conjoined rath (SMR 28:209) at least 30m away to the north. Burnt orange-stained earth in very random patches turned up in the topsoil in most trenches. Its occurrence does indicate burning and later redeposition but does not point to any activity or feature of antiquity. One small stretch of a linear stone-filled drain is similarly of more recent creation. Very few items (all modern) came from the testing.
