County: Roscommon Site name: CLOONACARROW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO009-059 Licence number: 11E012
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 574316m, N 795238m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 174,359.000000, 295,224.000000
Pre-development testing was carried out on 20 January 2011 at a site in Cloonacarrow townland as part of a Request for Further Information by Roscommon County Council on a proposed development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage and septic tank system, along with all ancillary site works. The testing was required because of the proximity of a ringfort (RO009-059) to the proposed development site. The bivallate ringfort was located along the northern half of the eastern site boundary. A 20m exclusion zone around the monument was incorporated into the proposed site layout, with a fence to be erected along the line of exclusion. The site was located within a field of pasture which sloped from north-north-east down to south-south-west.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, positioned to best cover the development area, especially that closest to the ringfort. The trenches measured 39.7m, 20m, 20m, 27.9m and 36m long respectively, 0.9–1.2m wide and 0.3–0.65m deep. Below the topsoil in all five trenches was orange/grey/brown plastic clay. The topsoil contained one modern pottery sherd. The natural subsoil contained occasional naturally decaying rocks. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the pre-development testing.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
