County: Mayo Site name: CREEVAGH SOUTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA120-032 Licence number: 11E0106
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 515351m, N 756929m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.555450, -9.277545
Pre-development testing was carried out on 26 April 2011 at a site at Creevagh South townland, Cong. The proposed development consisted of the construction of a serviced dwelling, garage/shed, effluent treatment system and associated services. Testing was required owing to the proximity of a possible enclosure (MA120-032) to the proposed development site. A section of the enclosing wall of the monument was incorporated into the southern end of the eastern site boundary. This section of the enclosing element appeared to consist of a modern drystone field wall above the overgrown remains of a cashel wall measuring up to 1m wide. The proposed development site was c. 2km north-east of Cong village, in a roughly flat field of pasture with a band of scrub and rock outcrop along the western third of the site.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches located to best cover the development area, especially that closest to the possible enclosure. The trenches measured 32.5m, 10.3m, 24m, 25.8m and 37.2m long respectively, 1.2–2m wide and 0.1–0.65m deep. Below the topsoil was silt loam, boulder clay (natural subsoil) and limestone bedrock. One small fragment of a clay pipe stem, one sherd of modern pottery and one modern glass fragment were found in the topsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed during the testing.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
