2005:936 - FENAGH: Commons, Leitrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Leitrim Site name: FENAGH: Commons

Sites and Monuments Record No.: LE025-094–96 Licence number: 04E1546

Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 610570m, N 807601m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.017512, -7.838715

The site of the proposed development at Commons is on the outskirts of Fenagh village, Co. Leitrim. It is to include an extension to the Fenagh Handball Alley and connections to services for the adjacent community centre. The site is near two standing stones and Fenagh Abbey, an Early Christian monastic enclosure and medieval churches. However, the excavation works were confined to an area affected by substantial infilling in the recent past. All excavation works were monitored. The service trenches revealed compact clays and hardcore relating to both infilling and the recent installation of a village sewage system. No archaeological remains were revealed.

Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim