County: Roscommon Site name: Knockadoobrusna
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO006–118 Licence number: 06E0297
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 580246m, N 800486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.953315, -8.300949
Monitoring works were undertaken in Knockadoobrusna townland, c. 2km south of Boyle. Limited groundworks were undertaken to facilitate the erection of a 26m mobile phone communication tower within an existing telecommunications compound. A trench was dug to lay an ESB duct from the compound to a nearby ESB pole. The compound is within the constraint area of a large archaeological complex comprising two barrows, a possible barrow, a ring-barrow, two henges, two enclosures and a field bank.
No archaeological remains were encountered in the course of monitoring the groundworks. Much of the new compound was positioned on an existing access trackway in an area that had been previously disturbed. The only feature found in the trench for the ESB ducting was the remains of a field boundary.
