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2015:027 - BALLYMOTE: Carrowcauly or Earlsfield, Marran Park, Sligo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Sligo

Site name: BALLYMOTE: Carrowcauly or Earlsfield, Marran Park

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 15E0085

Author: David J. O'Connor, Magnus Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: 57 Grianan Fidh, Aiken's Village, Sandyford, Dublin 18

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 566225m, N 816293m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.094100, -8.515838

Archaeological Test Trench Investigation of the proposed site of a Primary Care Centre for Balymote took place on Tuesday 21st April 2015, under excavation licence 15E0085. The investigation involved the excavation of c.605 linear metres of 2m-wide trenches across the site using a 13-ton tracked machine under direct archaeological supervision. The only features observed were a 19th century mortared stone drain and a 20th century demesne roadway. No features of archaeological significance were observed. No archaeological finds were observed or recovered during the investigations. No recommendations for further archaeological mitigation have been made.


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