2012:509 - Demesne, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: Demesne

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E0173

Author: Niall Brady

Site type: Stone drain

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 568074m, N 780105m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.769562, -8.484275

Testing in advance of laying out a new pitch for St Kevin’s GAA club in Castlerea, cut 7 trenches and uncovered a stone-lined drain in one.  The drain was located in a linear sunken feature that crosses the site. The sunken linear forms a distinct complex of early drainage across the site. Pottery and brick recovered indicates a c. 19th-century date.

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