2009:708 - KNOCKCROGHERY, Roscommon
NMI Burial Excavation Records
County: Roscommon
Site name: KNOCKCROGHERY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 09E0277
Author: Edel Ruttle, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 593702m, N 758521m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.576544, -8.095090
Monitoring of a sewerage scheme located a dump of c. 50 clay tobacco pipes. These artefacts are very likely to be associated with the manufactory known to have existed in Knockcroghery village between 1700 and 1921.