2007:1525 - Carns, Sligo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Sligo Site name: Carns

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL014–237 Licence number: 07E0693

Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 570821m, N 833656m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.250919, -8.447731

Eight trenches were opened on the imprint of a house site at Carns townland. An enclosure site is located in the same field as the house site. No archaeological features or remains were uncovered in any of the test-trenches opened. Bedrock occurred very close to ground level in the test-trenches.