County: Leitrim Site name: BRIDGE STREET, TOWNPARKS, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1488
Author: Martin A. Timoney, Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 593496m, N 799880m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.948203, -8.099065
This development involved the demolition of additions to a Georgian building on the main street of Carrick-on-Shannon, in an area described as being in a ‘zone of archaeological importance’.
The street-front building seems to be a clean Georgian townhouse not incorporating any earlier build. The demolished rear buildings seemed to be of post-1830 vintage and most were quite recent. The development works were monitored over four days in January and February 2005. Beneath the level of the former floor there was a dump of large stones and soil that had been used to raise the level of the site by 1–1.5m. The material around the stones was a wet, dark, dirty soil, not of archaeological origin, but derived from the subsoil of hereabouts. A number of deep holes for structural supports were dug to 2–2.5m below the level of these stones. These gave no indication of archaeology. There was nothing to give rise to any archaeological concern at any stage in the works.
