2008:1045 - ROSCOMMON: Castle Street, Ballypheasan, Roscommon
County: Roscommon
Site name: ROSCOMMON: Castle Street, Ballypheasan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0983
Author: Gearóid Kelleher, The Archaeology Company Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Hamilton House, Emmet Street, Birr, Co. Offaly
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 587439m, N 764991m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.634570, -8.189916
Excavation took place at a site at the rear of Castle Street accessed from Lanesborough Road in the town centre. Castle Street was situated on slightly elevated ground that sloped off to the north-west and the south-east. Work at Ballypheasan led to the identification of post-medieval domestic waste. The domestic refuse contained broken tin-glazed pottery, metal and glass.