2008:1005 - Cloncreen, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly Site name: Cloncreen

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0351

Author: John Kavanagh, Icon Archaeology Ltd, 12 Cherrymount Drive, Carlow.

Site type: Testing

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 659143m, N 724355m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.266242, -7.113438

A test excavation was carried out at a greenfield site at Cloncreen, Clonbologue, Co. Offaly, prior to the construction of a single domestic dwelling opposite the site of a church and graveyard (OF019–004). During the course of the excavation a single narrow gully and fire-spot were uncovered. These features were resolved under licence 08E0894 (see No. 1006 below).