2006:1403 - Church Lane, Ballinrobe, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo Site name: Church Lane, Ballinrobe

Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA118–022 Licence number: 06E0183

Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates, Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway.

Site type: Urban

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 519244m, N 764332m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.622577, -9.220719

Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed commercial development at Church Lane, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, on 15 March 2006. The site is located in the south-west part of the area of constraint around the historic town. Some nondescript sheds and walls were demolished and a concrete slab removed prior to testing. Testing comprised the excavation of two trenches on the footprint of the proposed development. A rubble layer, 0.15m in thickness, overlay an old garden soil deposit with an average thickness of 0.45m. This overlay orange/brown silty sand subsoil. No archaeological material was uncovered.