2009:562 - MULLAGH, Longford
County: Longford
Site name: MULLAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 09E0315
Author: Mandy Stephens, CRDS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Greenanstown, Stamullan, Co. Meath
Site type: Field boundary
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 611498m, N 775477m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.728831, -7.825750
Site 3, Mullagh, was located 1.95km west of Longford town. This was one of three sites identified in the townland along the route of the N5 Longford bypass.
The excavation revealed a section of a ditch which was also identified at Mullagh, Site 2 (see No. 561, Excavations 2009, 09E314), located a short distance north of this site. It has been interpreted as a medieval field boundary.
The ditch section exposed in the course of excavation was linear, oriented north-east/south-west and measured 9m by 0.86m by 0.38m. It was U-shaped in section and contained two fills, F10 and F6. Basal fill F10 was a deposit of grey/brown clayey silt which contained flecks of charcoal. This deposit was overlain by orange/brown clayey silt F6. The latter deposit contained moderate quantities of medium to large stones. There were no artefacts recovered from either fill.
Its estimated total length is 90m. Samples recovered from Site 2 were retrieved and processed to derive material suitable for dating and palaeobotanical assessment.