County: Sligo Site name: Carrowdough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0492
Author: Franc Myles, 67 Kickham Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 561019m, N 835155m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.263731, -8.598328
A planning application attracted a condition that an archaeological assessment of a small domestic extension be made prior to any development works taking place. The site comprises a bungalow on rising land along the southern outskirts of Strandhill, 40m north of sites SL013–3400–1 and SL013–3400–2, which appear to be an elongated rath and associated souterrain. The former is not apparent on the first or second editions of the OS but is depicted on the 25-inch map which was surveyed c. 1912. In addition, the development site lies to the east of sand dunes in the same townland, where shell middens are occasionally visible after storms.
Two trenches were mechanically excavated across the footprint of the proposed extension. It was found that two phases of extensive earthmoving had taken place across the site, the later phase possibly associated with road widening in the mid-20th century. The earlier phase may have resulted in the formation of SL013–3400–1, and a golf-ball core dating to the late 19th or early 20th century was located in association with this activity.
