County: Leitrim Site name: COMMONS, FENAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 25:94–96 Licence number: 04E1546
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services, Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
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.
