2009:691 - BALLYBROGAN, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: BALLYBROGAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0285

Author: Ellen O’Carroll, 12 St Peter’s Terrace, Glenageary, Co. Dublin.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 598398m, N 752354m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.521152, -8.024152

Planning permission for a dwelling-house and detached domestic garage to rear with a septic tank and sewage treatment plant at Ballybrogan, Lecarrow was subject to an impact assessment including testing. The site lies adjacent to RO045–120, listed as a ringfort/rath/cashel. Six trenches, running northwest/south-east, were excavated using a track
machine with a 1.5m-wide grading bucket. No archaeological finds or features were identified during testing.