County: Mayo Site name: CROAGHAUN WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0101
Author: Frank Coyne
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 499253m, N 822076m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.137813, -9.541775
Test-trenching was undertaken in May 2011 at Croaghaun West, Bellacorick. The greenfield site consists of boggy ground covered in rushes, rising to a low rounded hill at the eastern side of the site. Evidence of turf-cutting was also noted on the site, which is bounded on the west by the Oweninny River and a third-class road, to the south by a bridge leading to a farmhouse, and by bogland to the north and east. The nearest RMP site, MA027-003 (cist burial), is located approximately 2.6km to the west. Nine trenches were excavated at this site, with the total area tested amounting to 1,612m². In the central area of the site the peat was up to 1.7m deep. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered during the test-trenching.
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