2011:519 - BOYLE ABBEY, BOYLE, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: BOYLE ABBEY, BOYLE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: CO25; E2399

Author: Annette Quinn

Site type: Cistercian abbey

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 580526m, N 802793m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.974049, -8.296839

As part of the ongoing conservation works at Boyle Abbey, Boyle, monitoring of the removal of concrete pad foundations was undertaken in 2011 over three to four days. No deposits or human remains were exposed during the concrete removal. A fifth and final phase of excavation is due to take place in 2012.

Tobar Archaeological Services, Saleen, Midleton, Cork