County: Sligo Site name: Kilmacowen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL020–101 Licence number: 06E1196
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 565964m, N 830917m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.226004, -8.521949
Five test-trenches were opened on the site of a single-house development in the townland of Kilmacowen, which is c. 6km south-west of Sligo. The house site is within the constraint area of a ring-ditch (possible), which had been identified by an aerial photograph.
No archaeological features or deposits were found in any of the test-trenches; in fact, the upper stratigraphy was totally homogenised, suggesting consistent and sustained ploughing over the last few hundred years. Furthermore a great deal of land management had been undertaken in the latter half of the 20th century, resulting in boundary clearances and ground levelling. A nearby monument (an enclosure, SL020–102) had been greatly disturbed by the recent land clearances.
