County: Roscommon Site name: Grange Lough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06D081, 06R184
Author: Eoghan Kieran, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway.
Site type: Lake assessment – no archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 596849m, N 786978m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.832291, -8.047868
An underwater assessment was undertaken of a proposed abstraction pipeline for the proposed Grange Lough group water supply scheme, Co. Roscommon.
The terrain in this area mainly comprised grey/brown podzolic clays and gleys which have occasional deposits of inter-drumlin peat and peaty gleys. The geology of the region is characterised by limestone glacial till.
With regard to the underwater cultural heritage, it was necessary to undertake a magnetometer survey surrounding the abstraction point. This did not record the presence of any archaeological material.
