County: Roscommon Site name: CLOONGOWNAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0375
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, Consultant Archaeologists, 13 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 590528m, N 800222m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.951233, -8.144296
This site was found during monitoring of the Hughestown-Meera, Roscommon, N4 realignment scheme in which a number of small sites, including fulachta fiadh and pits containing burnt material, were found. This site (Site 8) was a pit extending over an area 4.4m by 1.1m in extent. It was 0.31m in depth and produced two layers of charcoal-rich deposits and baked earth. The subsoil at the base of the pit showed signs of intense burning. No further material was recovered from the pit and its nature is unknown.
