2005:1348 - GOFF STREET/CIRCULAR ROAD/ATHLONE ROAD, ROSCOMMON, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: GOFF STREET/CIRCULAR ROAD/ATHLONE ROAD, ROSCOMMON

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 39:43 Licence number: 05E1354

Author: Mary Henry, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Site type: Urban

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 588035m, N 764127m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.626824, -8.180877

Six test-trenches were opened on the site as part of granted planning permission to construct a commercial building in the south part of Roscommon town. A total of eleven drains were discovered within the trenches, as well as an agricultural furrow and a precast concrete foundation. All of these features were of modern date.