2012:525 - Coney Island, Sligo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Sligo Site name: Coney Island

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL008-099, SL008-180 Licence number: 12E019

Author: Mary Henry

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 562360m, N 839255m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.300663, -8.578280

Pre-construction testing works were undertaken in advance of the building of a dwelling house and associated site works. The works were undertaken as part of Further Information for planning permission to build the house. The development site is located within the confines of a midden and a star-shaped fort.
A total of three test trenches were opened on the site. No archaeological remains/features were uncovered in any of the trenches.

Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd, 17 Staunton Row, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.