2008:892 - CASTLEBURKE, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: CASTLEBURKE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA099–013

Licence number: 08E0613

Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 516603m, N 777400m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.739564, -9.264146

Test excavations took place at Castleburke, Ballintubber, Co. Mayo, on 1 September 2008. The eponymous castle (MA099–013) was originally a 13th-century Anglo Norman build that was later associated with the McWilliam Iochtair and in particular Tiobaid na Long. The site of the proposed dwelling house is adjacent to a house scheduled for demolition, located 60m from the castle. Three test-trenches were opened on the footprint of the proposed house. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.