County: Monaghan Site name: ’98 Avenue, Clones
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MO011–010 Licence number: 06E0608
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates, Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 650153m, N 826105m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.181447, -7.231695
Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed headquarters building for Monaghan County Library Service and Local Branch Library at ’98 Avenue, Clones, Co. Monaghan, on 4 July 2006, which was in the vicinity of ecclesiastical remains. Three trenches, averaging 25m in length and 1.6m in depth, were opened on the development footprint. Underlying the tarmacadam surface there was a 0.7m-thick layer of aggregate and rubble which was built up on terram sheeting. The terram sealed a deposit of peat, which was excavated to a depth of 0.8m. No archaeological material was uncovered.
