County: Roscommon Site name: KILCOLMAN, Ballaghaderreen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0298
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 561935m, N 794856m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.901697, -8.579211
Eleven test-trenches were opened on the site of a proposed hotel development on the outskirts of Ballaghaderreen town as part of further information for planning permission. The nearest known monument to the development site was a ringfort, 200m to its south. The site was formerly the property of the church and a large dwelling house on the site was used as the Bishop’s Palace in the latter half of the 19th century. The property was known locally as the ‘Abbey’.
Testing revealed no artefacts or material pre-dating the latter 19th-century use of the site. Other than cultivation furrows and traces of outbuildings associated with the Bishop’s Palace, nothing else of note was encountered.
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