County: Mayo Site name: Cappaghduff East
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0194
Author: Leo Morahan, Roscrea, Moyard, Co. Galway.
Site type: Modern
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 508645m, N 767368m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.648108, -9.381773
On a site occupying the top and eastern slopes of a ridge there are plans for a proposed nursing home at Cappaghduff East, Toormakeady, and pre-development test-trenches were cut due to the large scale, 3.5 acres, of the project. Fifteen trenches were dug with lengths of linear red-brick piping laid into the boulder clay in three east–west-aligned trenches. Each section of pipe was 0.37m long, 0.07m wide and 0.06m thick with an internal diameter of 55mm. The ends of each pipe were flush and the system consisted of individual units fitted end-to-end in a small cut foundation trench and running for at least 70m in length along the slope. It appears most likely that water ran through these pipes but it is unclear where it ran from or was piped to. Otherwise there was lime staining found at the top of the boulder clay where modern lime deposits had been washed down. The small number of articles found were all modern.
