2011:454 - LISDUVOGUE, Mayo

A licence was obtained to monitor groundworks for a conservatory extension to a modern bungalow built c. 1970 at Lisduvogue, Knockmore, Ballina. The house was located at or close to the southern edge of an enclosure which featured on 19th- and early 20th-century maps. More recent maps, however, do not show the site and on these it has been named ‘Ringfort (site of)’. A clear semicircular feature was noted in the foundation trench along the south. This measured 1.4m north-west/south-east by at least 0.9m and was 0.1–0.14m deep. Its edge had a narrow, dark, burnt texture[?], 0.06m thick on average, while the fill consisted of large amounts of orange-stained burnt earth with occasional blackened burnt clay or powdery charcoal and some black burnt stone. The orange burnt clay was soft in texture, as opposed to a hard mortar floor 0.05m thick which was exposed in one small sector and was found to lie on natural yellow daub. The top of the feature was 0.55m below the original ground level but will be buried beneath the wall foundation. No damage will be caused to the southern half of the feature, as it lies beneath undisturbed ground. The limits and contexts of the burnt feature have been ascertained and no datable archaeology will be affected here. In the remainder of the foundation trenches nothing of archaeological significance was noted.

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