County: Longford Site name: AGHNACLIFF
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LF006–017 Licence number: 08E0982
Author: Shane Delaney, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 626212m, N 788832m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.848309, -7.601645
Testing was undertaken at Aghnacliff, Co. Longford, prior to the proposed five villages waste water sewerage scheme. Test-trenching was undertaken on 13 and 19 January 2009. A total of seven trenches were mechanically investigated across the greenfield site of the proposed wastewater-treatment works with a further trench being excavated along the section of pipeline within the archaeological constraint for an enclosure site, LF006–072. This trench was located within an existing roadway. The site of the proposed treatment works is bound to the north by a fast flowing river and is located c. 40m north-west of a large portal tomb (LF006–017) but outside of the constraint area. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the programme of testing.
