County: Leitrim Site name: N4 Dromod Roosky Bypass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 05E0983
Author: Sheelagh Conran, Marta Muñiz Pérez and Donal Fallon, for CRDS Ltd, Unit 4, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 604424m, N 792208m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.879283, -7.932713
Sheelagh Conran and Marta Muñiz Pérez carried out pre-development testing along the route of the proposed N4 Dromod Roosky bypass. Fieldwork started on 9 August 2005 and ran until 11 October 2005 (Donal Fallon later completed the testing of one final area, which was initially inaccessible, under the same licence). Approximately 44,000 linear metres of centreline trenching were completed. The section of the N4 under consideration as part of the N4 Dromod Roosky bypass scheme is c. 10km long and extends from the townland of Fearnaght in County Leitrim, c. 2.5km north of Dromod village, to the townland of Edercloon, c. 1.6km south of Roosky village in County Longford. In total 25 sites of archaeological interest were uncovered during the course of the centreline test-trenching. Resolution of these sites commenced in February 2006. The sites found are as follows:
Faulties. 18th-century limekiln. Chainage 1765.5–1818.5. NGR 204474.101 292194.021.
Furnace 1. Possible barrow. Chainage 2348–2375. NGR 204666.429 291647.030.
Furnace 4. Possible field boundary/wall. Chainage 2950. NGR 205104.804.
Cloonturk 3. Possible trackway. Chainage 3700. NGR 205796.441 290794.346.
Cloonturk 2. Burnt mound. Chainage 3859. NGR 205909.250 290813.424.
Cloonturk 1. Burnt spread and stone surface, sub-linear pit. Chainage 3912. NGR 205958.943 290782.277.
Clooncolry 1. Burnt mounds, plough furrows and pits. Chainage 4763. NGR 206234.711 290246.251.
Clooncolry 2. Well. Chainage 5925. NGR 205974.008 288911.009.
Clooncolry 3. 18th-century farmhouse. Chainage 6032.5–6054.5. NGR 206000.508 288782.403.
Cornagillagh. Possible trough. Chainage 6425–6625. NGR 205889.428 288335.034.
Killinaker 2. Ditches. Chainage 6700. NGR 205714.390 287873.358.
Killinaker 1. Drains, pits, ditches. Chainage 6950. NGR 205716.215 288017.864.
Moher 1. Limekiln. Chainage 7045–7058. NGR 205842.819 287752.957.
Moher 2. Quernstone and associated features. Chainage 7072–7112.5. NGR 205842.819 287752.957.
Moher 3. Burnt spread. Chainage 7058.5–7085.5. NGR 205842.819 287752.957.
Moher 4. Curvilinear ditch and associated features. Chainage 7328.5–7355.5. NGR 205845.344 287533.589.
Moher 5. Burnt mound. Chainage 7423–7450. NGR 205905.034 287415.579.
Moher 6. Anomalies and pits. Chainage 7531–7571.5. NGR 205711.625 287280.087.
Georgia 1. Burnt spread. Chainage 7841–7868.5. NGR 205863.210 286990.623.
Georgia 2. Pits. Chainage 7976. NGR 205873.076 286879.765.
Aghamore 1. Pits and curvilinear features. Chainage 8314–8476. NGR 205938.237 286425.757.
Aghamore 2. Burnt mounds, pits and associated features. Chainage 8503–8557. NGR 205992.442 286230.782.
Aghnahunshin. Burnt mounds and associated features. Chainage 8773. NGR 206074.291 285975.
Tomisky. Worked wood. Chainage 10015. NGR 206619.866 285178.783.
Edercloon. Trackway/platforms. Chainage 10100. NGR 206861.525 285027.279
