County: Sligo Site name: Carrigans Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 070E879
Author: Dermot Nelis, Dame House, 24–26 Dame Street, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 566414m, N 819042m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.119337, -8.513731
The proposed development at Carrigans Lower, Ballymote, would involve the construction of a single detached dwelling house with domestic garage, entrance driveway, effluent disposal system and associated site works on a site measuring c. 68m east–west by 55m. The excavation of eight test-trenches, spread throughout the proposed development area, failed to reveal any archaeological remains or artefacts. There was no evidence of any remains associated with the ringfort (SL033–018) located immediately east of the proposed development area, extending into the area of land-take.
