County: Roscommon Site name: RATHCAVE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO022-142 Licence number: 05E0385
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 580031m, N 781016m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.778344, -8.302953
The proposed development is to consist of a single house, access, garage, septic tank and percolation area. A ring-barrow is located c. 100m to the north. Five trenches were excavated across the site in April 2005. All measured 10m by 1.5m and were excavated to a depth of 0.35–0.4m. No archaeological activity was detected.
Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim