County: Sligo Site name: DUNOWLA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1509
Author: Martin A. Timoney, B—thar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 546009m, N 828531m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.202858, -8.827523
This development is for a single house and associated works in a wet rushy field. A small stream flows westwards along the south boundary and the field slopes down towards it and also towards the road. The surface material is very boggy and beneath that there is soft orange/red sandstone. In the lands to the east, at between 40m and 350m, there is a complex of prehistoric monuments in Barnacoghill townland.
The ground sequence was of boggy ground, of depths varying from 0.25-0.7m, on a thin layer of soil, 0.15-0.25m deep, derived from the underlying orange sandstone bedrock. The variable depths of the bog are to some degree the result of turf cutting. A tracked machine with a toothless bucket and also a spade was used. The eight trenches varied in length from 9.5m to 60m and in width from 1.5m to 2.85m. There were no archaeological discoveries by way of finds or features.
