County: Cavan Site name: CULLYLEENAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0242/05R022
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 627168m, N 818281m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.112877, -7.584492
A planning application for the development of the site, which lies to the south of Ballyconnell and on the eastern bank of the Woodrow River, required that an impact assessment, including testing and a metal-detecting survey, be prepared.
Much of the site is low-lying and marshy and lies c. 180m downslope of a ringfort (SMR 10:11). The metal-detecting survey, undertaken in advance of the testing programme, indicated a number of possible iron artefacts, which, following the testing, were discovered to be of modern origin (e.g. nails, barbed-wire, etc.) or due to iron-panning. Six trenches were excavated within the boundaries of the proposed development area, the results of which indicated that much of the surface was formed by a layer of organic peaty material. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of the testing.
