County: Sligo Site name: CARRIGEENS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0548
Author: Martin A. Timoney, Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554248m, N 824669m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.168960, -8.700660
Monitoring of groundworks for a single-house development in an open field in Carrigeens, Maugherow, took place in June 2005. Some fields to the west, a cist grave was found in the early 1990s and excavated by Mary Cahill of NMI. There is a megalith in the rear garden of the house to the east. A 1.5m-wide grading bucket on a medium-sized tracked machine was used.
The topsoil was a very good-quality brown soil, 0.25–0.35m deep generally, with very few stones. There were few modern finds of crockery in this soil, which probably was tilled many times for potatoes. Under the topsoil the undisturbed natural ground was in three colour bands across the site: orange with stones (sandstones) in the east, grey in the centre and red/brown at the west; there was a narrow black edging to the grey area on either side. Traces of the continuation of the rear boundary fence of the house to the east and of another across the road to the south were picked up in the south-east corner, the entranceway part of the field.
There were no archaeological discoveries, the few items noted being of modern vintage and of no archaeological consequence.
