County: Roscommon Site name: KNOCKANYCONOR, Lecarrow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0391
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 597056m, N 754930m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.544300, -8.044409
Testing was undertaken within the boundaries of a proposed residential development site located in the townland of Knockanyconor, to the immediate south of the village of Lecarrow. There is a large (c. 40m diameter) stone-walled subcircular feature enclosing the highest area of the site. The internal surface slopes away on all sides and this may have militated against the habitable use of the site, although it is probable that it may have served as an animal enclosure. The feature is marked on OS maps, but it is not included in the Record of Monuments and Places. Following discussions with the DoEHLG, it was agreed that no testing would be undertaken either within the enclosure or within a 10m-wide buffer to be established around the feature. A total of eight trenches were subsequently excavated within the remaining area of the site and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.
7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
