County: Roscommon Site name: KNOCKCROGHERY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0277
Author: Edel Ruttle, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare.
Site type: Post-medieval clay tobacco pipe dump
Period/Dating: —
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.
