County: Sligo Site name: Cullagh More
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0795
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3.
Site type: Excavation halted
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 566158m, N 843703m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.340903, -8.520419
Testing commenced on 31 August 2006 at a proposed development site, 500m north of Carney village, in the townland of Cullagh More. An enclosure (SL008–006) is situated to the immediate north-west of the proposed development. A geophysical survey conducted in early July 2006 highlighted some areas of possible archaeological activity within the proposed development site, particularly at the northern corner. Eleven test-trenches were laid out to test the results of the geophysical survey. Two test-trenches were excavated at the south-eastern side of the proposed development area in an area adjacent to a residential estate. No archaeological features, artefacts or deposits were identified in these two trenches.
After only two out of an intended eleven trenches were excavated, the testing programme came to an end as a result of a dispute over landownership and access rights. As a result, the areas of possible archaeological activity identified by the geophysical survey could not be tested.
