County: Sligo Site name: 5, 6, 7–8 CASTLE Street, ABBEYQUARTER SOUTH, SLIGO
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL014–065 Licence number: 07E0096
Author: Martin A. Timoney, Bóthar an Corainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 569209m, N 835905m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.271027, -8.472709
This development will require the demolition of all of the buildings between the rear of Nos 5, 6 and 7–8 Castle Street and Rockwood Parade on the south side of the Garavoge River in Sligo town. As a preliminary phase, engineering test holes were monitored under licence. Depths to natural, 1.7m towards the south end and at least 2.4m towards the north end, were recorded. The 1.6m-deep foundations of one wall of early or mid-19th-century date and running perpendicular north from the rear wall of No. 6 was exposed at the south end. All of the finds were of 19th-century date. Development works began in March 2008 and will be reported on in Excavations 2008.
