County: Sligo Site name: Muckelty/Tawnavoultry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1057
Author: John O’Connor, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554658m, N 815396m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.085675, -8.692996
A test excavation was conducted at Test Area 4, in Muckelty and Tawnavoultry townlands along the proposed route of the N17 Tubbercurry bypass, on 13–15 November 2006. This test excavation is one of eight conducted along the middle section of the N17 realignment, Collooney to Charlestown. It comprises a 10.5km section of the N17 national primary route from the townland of Rhue, 2km to the south of Tubbercurry, to Tullyhugh, 1km north of Achonry Creamery.
A series of test-trenches were excavated in this area due to the presence of three possible circular enclosures identified from aerial photographs and the field survey. Two of the enclosures were topographical features, while the third was an old spring marked as a well on the OS maps that had been recently buried during land improvement works. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during the test excavation.
