2006:1738 - KNOCKANACONNY, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon

Site name: KNOCKANACONNY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO008–032

Licence number: 06E0121

Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 560290m, N 795176m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.904457, -8.604276

Six test-trenches were opened on the site of a single-house development in the townland of Knockanaconny, c. 1km south-west of Ballaghaderreen. Situated c. 50m to the south on the opposite side of the public road to the site are the remains of Glebe Castle. Other than evidence for some agricultural cultivation on the site, nothing of archaeological provenance was found.