County: Mayo Site name: CRANMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A020/027, E3520
Author: Agnes Kerrigan, for Mayo County Council
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 554470m, N 800164m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.948798, -8.693590
Testing was undertaken on this site on 5–7 September 2005 to ascertain its archaeological potential as specified in the EIA. The feature was located at an altitude of 114m OD. A hand-dug test-trench was opened across the mound, which measured 5m north–south by 1.5m by 0.4–0.7m deep. Modern pottery and glass were recovered from the deposits of the trench. A blue glass bead was recovered from the south-west corner of the test-trench in the topsoil deposit. Further investigation did not identify any feature or deposit of archaeological interest and the bead is an unstratified/stray find. The feature is considered to be upcast from either the excavation of the adjacent north–south-orientated land drain or subsequent cleaning of the drain. The reminder of the mound was removed by a 360° tracked machine with a 2m-wide toothless bucket under archaeological supervision. No features of archaeological significance were identified.
Drummin, Westport, Co. Mayo
