County: Monaghan Site name: AVALREAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0787
Author: Brian Halpin, National Archaeological Services
Site type: Settlement cluster
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 676379m, N 827518m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.190908, -6.829645
An excavation in advance of road development was carried out over a period of three days at Avalreagh, Co. Monaghan, as part of the N2 Castleblayney–Clontibret road realignment scheme. The site was uncovered during linear test-trench stripping for the road alignment scheme. The site encompassed the remains of a post-medieval farm structure thought to be a shed for animals and the remains of a possible bawn wall. During the course of excavation the remains of boundary walls were found, as were foundations for a shed. A possible water trough for animals was discovered. A bawn wall enclosed the site at some stage.
Ard Solas, Lacken, Co. Wicklow
