County: Roscommon Site name: MOYVANNAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO048–041 Licence number: 09E0496
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 597701m, N 748573m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.487178, -8.034633
Testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed single-house development during October 2009. According to the files of the ASI, there is a local tradition of a church site (RO048–04101) located within, or in the immediate environs of, the development site, for which there is no cartographic evidence. The field surface originally included a number of boulders and flagstones, all of which were removed during field-clearance works during the mid-20th century. A beehive quern (RO048–04102) and a stone basin (RO048–04103) were recovered during such clearance works.
A total of fourteen trenches of varying lengths and orientations were excavated within the boundaries of the development area and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.
