County: Sligo Site name: Rathscanlan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1061
Author: John O’Connor, ADS Ltd, Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 551065m, N 810939m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.045300, -8.747175
A test excavation was conducted at Test Area 9, in Rathscanlan townland along the proposed route of the N17 Tubbercurry bypass, on 22 and 23 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 a possible circular enclosure identified from aerial photographs (EIS ref. CHC3). The remains of a bank and ditch field boundary and evidence of ridge-and-furrow farming were uncovered in the test area. The field boundary had been removed in the recent past by the landowner. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during the test excavation.
