County: Roscommon Site name: Ogulla
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0278
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 582583m, N 780819m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.776663, -8.264238
Pre-development testing was carried out on 15 and 16 August 2013, at a proposed nursing home site, at Ogulla, Tulsk, Co. Roscommon. Testing was required due to the scale of the development. While there were no monuments within or immediately adjacent to the site there is a high density of monuments in the wider surrounding area.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of nine trenches located to best cover the development area. The trenches measured 85m, 60.5m, 80.7m, 90.8m, 93.2m, 95.2m, 95.6m, 34.2m and 16m long respectively, 1.8-2.1m wide and 0.1-0.7m deep. Below the topsoil were natural subsoils. The topsoil contained one un-inscribed clay pipe stem fragment, the base of a clay pipe bowl, animal bone fragments, modern glass fragments, modern pottery sherds, a rusted metal nail and a piece of coal. The topsoil also
contained thirty-three pottery sherds dating from the late 18th or the 19th century. Twenty-eight of the sherds were of glazed red earthenware, probably milk pans; one sherd was of 19th-century stoneware and two were blackware sherds, one a locally-produced storage vessel and the second a base sherd from a jug, probably imported from Staffordshire; two were unidentified.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the pre-development testing.
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